PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

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

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Files Proposed Cold Weather Standard To Improve Reliability For Natural Gas-fired, Other Electric Generators [PaEN] -- Eleven Coal, Coal-Waste Power Plants In Pennsylvania Now Covered By Presidential Exemption From 2024 Mercury, Hazardous Air Pollutant Regulation For 2 Years [PaEN] NewsClips: -- Energy Association Of PA [Utilities] Calls For Protection (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

First, he wants to allow coal-fired plants to evade existing air pollution rules and pour more mercury and other toxic compounds into the air. The thought is to make coal-fired power plants cheaper to operate. The consequence is more mercury in fish and more air pollution.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

11 -- WGAL: NRC Held 2nd Public Meeting On Possible Restart Of Undamaged Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Unit One -- The Center Square: Public Opinion Ranges From Those Eager For Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant To Restart To Serve A.I.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 7398 ) Air Quality Permits -- Equitrans, LP - Denny Hill Road Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on a Title V/RACT III Air Quality permit covering multiple air pollution sources at the facility located in Jefferson Twp., Deemed complete Oct. Greene County. ( Greene County. Approved Oct.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

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

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Files Proposed Cold Weather Standard To Improve Reliability For Natural Gas-fired, Other Electric Generators [PaEN] -- Eleven Coal, Coal-Waste Power Plants In Pennsylvania Now Covered By Presidential Exemption From 2024 Mercury, Hazardous Air Pollutant Regulation For 2 Years [PaEN] -- PUC Issues Management, Operations Audit For Peoples Natural Gas (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

DEP Advisory: DEP is migrating its website to a new platform to launch in mid-December. Bat Stories; Bat Trivia; Witch-Hazel; News Around The Watershed -- Penn State Extension: The Value Of Bats To Crop Production And Revenue -- Delaware RiverKeeper Nov.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

To Adopt More Stringent Rules For Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells In Westmoreland County -- Observer-Reporter: EQT Shale Gas Driller Sues Morgan Twp.,

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Kober [PaEN] -- Erie Times: US Attorney Moves To End Prosecution Of Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Chief, Further Curtailing Case Involving Felony Charges Brought By A Grand Jury For Illegal Air Pollution -- WHYY: Philly Schools Delayed Asbestos Inspections And ‘Knowingly’ Failed To Make Repairs: US Dept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2025

Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Annual Conference Oct.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Residents Will Have Drinkable Water By 2026 -- Courier Times: PA State Attorney General Investigates Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leaks For Potential Environmental Crimes In Bucks County [Convicted Of Other Criminal Charges, Penalized Over $48.1 Million In Growing Greener Plus Grants From DEP -- Volunteers Needed!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2025

Sacrificing Public Health Pennsylvanians living near fracking sites have long suffered the consequences: contaminated water, toxic air pollution, and a spike in respiratory illnesses. Every new well drilled is a death sentence for frontline communities and future generations. Their silence on these human costs is telling.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

-- The Citizens Voice: May 30-31 BioBlitz In Nesbitt Park, Kirby Park Natural Area In Wilkes-Barre -- Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader: First-Ever Wilkes-Barre BioBlitz Uncovers Hundreds Of Species -- Gettysburg Connection: Calling Planting Volunteers, Join Watershed Alliance Of Adams County May 31 For Pine Run Planting -- KYW: Emergency Siren Tests At Limerick, (..)

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp., Million In Growing Greener Plus Grants From DEP -- TribLive: Stormwater Fee Tabled, But Stark Fiscal Challenges Stand For Allegheny Twp.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Files Proposed Cold Weather Standard To Improve Reliability For Natural Gas-fired, Other Electric Generators [PaEN] -- Eleven Coal, Coal-Waste Power Plants In Pennsylvania Now Covered By Presidential Exemption From 2024 Mercury, Hazardous Air Pollutant Regulation For 2 Years [PaEN] -- PUC Issues Management, Operations Audit For Peoples Natural Gas (..)

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Now Accepting Applications For Environmental Science Scholarships [PaEN] -- Physicians For Social Responsibility PA, Climate Action Campaign Host March 24 Webinar On Impacts Of Climate Change On Women's Health [PaEN] -- TribLive Letter: Unfreeze The Energy, Climate Benefits Of Federal Inflation Reduction Act - By Bruce (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

-- Politico: Republican Administration Plans To Resuscitate Dead Keystone XL Oil Pipeline -- The Economist: New Republican Administration’s Natural Gas War Is About To Begin [ PDF of Article ] -- WSJ: Republican Oil & Gas Donors Don’t Really Want To ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ [ PDF of Article ] -- Reuters: Gauging The Likely Republican Effect On US Energy, (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Of Energy Awards DEP $16.2 11 -- One United Lancaster: Lancaster Celebrates $1 Million Federal Grant For Street Tree Program -- Penn State Extension Hosts 9-Part Woods In Your Backyard Webinar Series Starting Jan. 15 [PaEN] -- Cumberland County Master Gardeners Host Nov.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

DEP just renewed the Title V Air Quality permit for the Eddystone power plant on April 17. Two coal-fired units at the plant were retired in 2012 because these aging units are no longer efficient enough to compete with newer resources. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

7:00 p.m. -- AP: States Are Rolling Out Red Carpets For Data Centers, But Some Lawmakers Are Pushing Back [PA Included] -- KYW: Emergency Siren Tests At Limerick, Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plants This Week -- PennFuture: PJM Interconnection Admits Its Bias For Fossil Fuel Power Plants, Rather Than New, Cheaper Shovel-Ready Clean Energy Projects -- (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2025

Fitzpatrick To Keep Federal Clean Energy Tax Credits; Some Feel Abandoned By Republican Rollbacks -- Williamsport Sun Letter: Senate Bill Setting Decommissioning Requirements For Solar Energy Facilities Misplaced Compared To Other Energy Source s - By Dan Alters -- PUC Reminder: June 1 Electric Price Increases Now In Effect - Tips On How To Take Control (..)

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2025

Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PennDOT Opens 3 New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations In Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia Counties -- WHYY: These Philly-Area Doulas Want Parents To Think About Their Exposures To Heat, Air Pollution, Lead, Other Toxins -- Williamsport Sun: Signs Opposing Solar-Chicken Farm In Muncy Creek Twp.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Particulate Pollution Standard] -- Southwest PA Breathe Project : At 7:30 a.m 8 at the Clairton-Liberty Air Pollution Monitor PM 2.5 Contact: Nicole Faraguna 717-346-7636 or nfaraguna@pa.gov. Ohio- $2.90 PA- $3.29 -- WPost: Republicans Set $1.87

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2025

- Comments By Chief Fossil Officer For Talen Energy [Twitter] -- Better Path Coalition Hosts May 21 Webinar On Regional Water Use Policy And Siting Data Center Facilities [PaEN] -- ABC27: Lancaster County Residents Encouraged To Participate in Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Evacuation Survey -- WTAE: Skys The Limit For Sustainability At New (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

This includes harms from pollution from carbon-based energy, which medical research finds is the leading environmental threat to childrens health.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

27 Webinar: General Update Of Large-Scale Solar In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline: Solar Energy Projects On Manheim Twp.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2025

Eric Nelson (R-Westmoreland) announced plans to introduce legislation to accelerate DEP and other permits for data centers and dedicated power plants that are “behind the meter” that meet or exceed federal air pollution and other standards.

Regulations

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

What started two decades ago as a mostly domestic industrial policy to help shore up energy security and alleviate severe air pollution is now also an export strategy, Wang said, noting that BYD recently surpassed Tesla to become the largest EV manufacturer in the world. Teslas are a dime a dozen in California, of course.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2025

Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC - Buck Township Facility: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit for multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located Buck Twp., Luzerne County. ( PA Bulletin, page 5017 ) -- Vicinity Energy Philadelphia, Inc.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

. - Daleville Compressor Station : DEP invites comments on the renewal of an Air Quality General Permit for the facility located in Londonderry Twp., PA Bulletin, page 5191 ) -- JKLM Energy, LLC - Woods Water Withdrawal Pump Site: DEP issued a GP-11 Air Quality General Permit for two water pumps at the facility located in Tioga Twp.,

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We need to plan for energy infrastructure that supports our economy and reduces harmful air pollution. The grid might not meet that demand Electricity for data centers comes from the grid, and by extension, the mix of power plants that supply the grid. Some forecasting models must use observations of young people, no?

Electricity

Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Backgrounds After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were temporarily shutdown due to safety concerns. Kobelco Power Kobe No. and Kansai Electric Power Co., and requested an injunction to block the construction and subsequent operation of two coal-fired power plants.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Panther Creek has committed at least seven violations related to unpermitted air pollution issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and the vast majority of those violations came after Stronghold Mining acquired the Panther Creek Tower Plant in late 2021,” said Zerbo. Read more here. Read more here.

Air Pollution

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 12, 2025

imported gas, greater air pollution and more severe climate damages. The promotion of nuclear energy as an affordable energy source and key to energy security is wrong. The price tag of a unit of electricity produced by new nuclear power is much higher than wind, solar and storage technology.

Government