Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

Whether a given DER is clean depends on the type of DER, but clean solar photovoltaic (PV) generation is by far the leading source of distributed generation, with storage resources quickly growing into second place. Energy Information Agency. The growth in DER technologies by type over time. Source: U.S. Make this plot yourself.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

That means they are going to politicians with their hand out to receive more of your tax dollars with nothing to show for it except receipts from past failures like leaking pipelines, harmful air pollution, and dangerous explosions. It’s focused on increasing the price of natural gas to increase its bottom line.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

First of all, electric trains are quieter and less polluting. There are immediate gains for air pollution, especially as they pass through urban areas. India prepares to ramp up clean energy capacity Second, electric traction is more energy efficient.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Chair, House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee -- Marcellus Drilling News: PA Independent Oil & Gas Assn. Responds To Rep.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

Billion Pounds Of Air Pollution Since It Began Operation, During 80 Malfunctions, 43 Violation Episodes [PaEN] -- PA Senate Republican Policy Committee To Hold Aug. 11 Hearing On A.I. Data Center Development In Lackawanna County [PaEN] -- PA House Environmental Committee To Hold Aug.

Politics

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A quick refresher: Automobiles and trucks are among the leading causes of climate- and lung-destroying air pollution worldwide, and shifting from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles is a key strategy (among many) to cut these emissions. It’s a bleak outlook from any angle. It’s a bleak outlook from any angle.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In particular, I am celebrating two key achievements of this legislation related to clean energy siting and gas overreliance. In particular, I am celebrating two key achievements of this legislation related to clean energy siting and gas overreliance. This is a huge reason for hope and celebration!

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Note: In Pennsylvania, DEP receives at least $60 million a year in federal funding just to pay staff and other costs of implementing federal environmental protection programs like Air Quality, Water Quality, Mining, Storage Tanks, Waste, Safe Drinking Water and others.]

Air Pollution

Enviromental Defense

JULY 9, 2025

Oil and Gas Pollution is Costing Canadians Money Beyond direct costs, oil and gas pollution has widespread economic consequences. Air pollution for fossil fuel emissions leads to higher healthcare costs, lost productivity and environmental damages.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

MW-Day In 2024-25; Extreme Weather Risk Big Factor [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- DEP Received Air Quality Permit For 4.6 MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day Data Centers -- Utility Dive: Midcontinent Grid Operator Reports Summer Electricity Prices Jump To $666.50/MW-day

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

14 Webinar On The New Deadline For Taking Advantage Of Federal Solar Energy Tax Credits [PaEN] -- Centre Daily Times: What To Know About Use-Them-Or-Lose-Them Clean Energy Tax Credits -- Penn State Extension Cumberland County Master Gardeners: Aug. 12-14] -- PA Interfaith Power & Light Hosts Aug. 27 -- Public Opinion - A.I.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

PJM Overview Electricity prices in PJM, which serves all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, are rising dramatically due to a failure to transition to clean energy. Lack Of Clean Energy Transition The fundamental reason behind the price spike is the lack of a clean energy transition in PJM.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

It’s a tribute to the significance of state climate policies that Trump devoted an entire executive order to excoriating them as “fundamentally irreconcilable” with his own, fossil-fuel promoting, energy policy. and elsewhere that are hostile to clean energy. Yet, despite all the drama in D.C.,

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

Thank you for the opportunity to provide input on the expansion of MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources, LLCs (MarkWest) Harmon Creek Gas Processing Plant (''Harmon Creek''), which adds several new air pollution sources in one of the most overburdened areas in Pennsylvania.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2025

Data Centers Tracker; Public Invited To Submit Information [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network: EPA Cancels Solar For All Program That Would Lower Energy Bills For Families [$156 Million In PA] [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance: Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Released 17.9 11 Hearing On A.I.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2025

Billion Pounds Of Air Pollution Since It Began Operation, During 80 Malfunctions, 43 Violation Episodes [PaEN] -- PA Senate Republican Policy Committee To Hold Aug. Billion Pounds Of Air Pollution Since It Began Operation, During 80 Malfunctions, 43 Violation Episodes [PaEN] -- PA Senate Republican Policy Committee To Hold Aug.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4%

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2025

The budget measure extends tax cuts for the wealthy, slashes Medicaid and – more to the point for this writing – almost completely eliminates or renders unworkable many of the clean energy tax credits established or expanded by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and guts many of the IRA’s grant and loan programs. Solar and wind.

2026

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

Benefits Outweigh Costs 3-12 Times] Between 1970 and 2019 , emissions of common air pollutants decreased 77 percent while our economy more than tripled. Another credible analysis found the benefits of the Clean Air Act exceeded its costs by more than 30 to one.

Clean Air Act

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. Clean energy generation increased. Our air and water got cleaner. The consequence is more mercury in fish and more air pollution. Amid the discouraging and dangerous trend, the U.S.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

And Saved $44.2 And Saved $44.2

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

Mercer County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On 401 Water Quality Certification For Rover Pipeline Rover-Bulger Compressor Station, Harmon Creek Meter Station Expansion In Smith Twp., Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For A MarkWest Liberty 4.5

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

The IRA provisions no longer being repealed as part of the bill include air monitoring, diesel emission reductions, school air pollution reduction, climate pollution reduction planning and implementation grants, Environmental Justice block grant funding, and modernization of EPA’s air and water enforcement database (ICIS).

2027

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2668 ) -- Monroe Energy, LLC - Trainer Refinery East West Pipe Rack Process Sewer Release: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with organics to meet the Statewide Health Standard at the facility located in Trainer Borough, Delaware County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Delaware County. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 1592 ) -- Range Resources - Orenchuk Russell Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued a de minimis increase in air emissions covering multiple sources of air pollution under a GP-5A General Air Quality Permit at the facility located in Jefferson Twp., Received Jan. 28, Issued Jan. Washington County. Received Dec.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Customer Charge Increase By Wellsboro Electric; 18% Gas Increase + 13.4%

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 18, 2025

Data Center May Be Limited Under Current Lancaster City Zoning -- The Allegheny Front: Data Centers Are Encroaching On This Luzerne County Town, So Locals Are Taking Action Early -- Post-Gazette: DEP Approves More Than $1 Million In Grants For Clean Energy Vehicles In Western PA -- Scranton Times: Abandoned Mine Reclamation To Begin Soon For Archbald, (..)

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

Advocates campaigned for cleaner vehicles to cut pollution, and California led a lawsuit by 16 states seeking to electrify the mail trucks. C alifornia’s intervention “played a big part in stopping USPS from committing to decades of air pollution around the nation,” Liane Randolph, head of the state’s Air Resources Board, said.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 5, 2025

President Trump retook the White House in the midst of a booming transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew the air pollution permit it had issued for the 2.6-GW This post is part of a new Climate Law Blog series, 100 Days of Trump 2.0, On March 14, the U.S.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Resource Links - Harmon Creek Hearing: -- Community Speaks Out Against Expansion Of Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County [PaEN] -- Washington County Resident To DEP: Harmon Creek Natural Gas Plant Expansion Will Result In A Huge Increase In Air Pollution, It Should Be Required To Have A Major Air Quality Permit, It Is Not (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Is Nuclear The Hot New Clean Power Source? Is Nuclear The Hot New Clean Power Source?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed! Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed!

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

This short-term calculus poses a dire threat to numerous UCS priorities, from clean energy, to electric vehicles, to sustainable agriculture, to climate resilience, to reducing the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Tax credits supporting the clean energy transition. Grants and loans supporting the clean energy transition.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2025

Although it doesn’t say so, one of the strategies it brushes aside as useless is the very strategy the Trump Administration itself adopted in a previous regulation, the Affordable Clean Energy rule. What it once adopted as the right way to go turns out to be barely worth a moment’s thought this time.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment Stupid [PaEN] -- Senators Santarsiero, Comitta Introduce SB 581 Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Other Infrastructure, Based On Latest Science [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project: Setback (..)

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

By helping stakeholders navigate both landscapes – housing and IRA – cities can promote construction for new housing that is affordable, electric, and energy efficient and retrofits for existing homes to lessen climate impacts, indoor air pollution, and energy bills.

Government