PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2025

Room G-50 Irvis Building.

Electricity

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

LA’s Bureau of Street Lighting is slowly swapping out traditional streetlights for solar-powered versions. Canary Media reports it’s a way to crack down on copper theft, because the new ones are not attached to the larger power system and thus have no copper wire to steal. scorching more than 114,000 acres as of this weekend.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

This could be achieved in some regions using atmospheric water harvesters (AWHs), which draw clean liquid water out of humid air. There are several different types of AWH, and Lord and colleagues focussed on the solar-driven, continuous-mode AWH (SC-AWH). In addition, the tool accounted for annual variations in these parameters.

Solar Power

Scientific American

MAY 17, 2023

Solar-powered balloons detected strange, ultra low-frequency rumblings in Earth’s stratosphere that, so far, scientists can’t identify

Atmosphere

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.

Solar Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. There is no time to waste.

Climate Change

Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 18, 2024

Researchers have developed a promising new solar-powered atmospheric water harvesting technology that could help provide enough drinking water for people to survive in difficult, dryland areas: They synthesized a super hygroscopic gel capable of absorbing and retaining an unparalleled amount of water.

Solar Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

And that’s critical, given that a cleaned-up power sector is foundational to delivering emissions reductions across all the other sectors of the economy—and clean electricity tax credits are foundational to cleaning up the power sector. What’s “clean,” and how is it measured?

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below). Source: UNEP 2022 Emissions Gap Report. The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Solar power seems promising, but access to solar power as an energy source can be. A shift to solar power in the United States would likely require a federal initiative to fund manufacturing and necessary advances in research. implementing solar energy programs. environmental hazards and health risks.

Solar Power

Physics World

JUNE 20, 2022

Extracting moisture directly from the atmosphere could provide millions of people with vital access to clean water. Solar-powered harvesters could produce clean water for one billion people. Many parts of the world experience some degree of water scarcity and the problem is expected to grow with increasing global warming.

Solar Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i]. A negative CI score would suggest an almost magical climate solution that pulls several carbon dioxide molecules from the atmosphere for each one that comes from the tailpipe of a truck running on dairy biomethane.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Burning waste—especially plastic waste—generates toxic and climate-warming gases that fill our air, our lungs and our atmosphere, warming the climate and making people sick. Focus on increasing truly renewable, low-emission energy such as wind and solar power.

Fossil Fuels

Frontiers

APRIL 26, 2022

While the energy output of a miniaturized nuclear fission device is location-agnostic, the productivity of solar-powered solutions rely on solar intensity, surface temperature, and other factors that would determine where a non-nuclear outpost would be optimally located.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

Planned investments in energy efficiency will decrease the use of utilities on campus, while investments in electricity generation, including agreements for local hydroelectric and solar power that are already underway, will help ensure that the energy the University does consume is clean.

Clean Energy

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It could be atmospheric, sulfur injections and that kind of stuff. Ideally moveable homes, flat pack, whatever the case may be, all of these ways, wind and solar power. To decarbonize industries. To invest massively in alternative and renewable energy potentially. Potentially all of it is necessary.

Politics

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. In fact, 2020 brought the largest single increase in methane in the atmosphere since we started measuring this in the 1980s. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link].

Electricity

A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s top climate science body, has stated that it is “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land”. Lord Lilley told DeSmog that he is a “strong supporter” of the GWPF, but said that it was not a “climate science denier organisation”. “I

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Powerful storms called atmospheric rivers brought nearly a foot of rain to parts of British Columbia, particularly the province’s southern region. According to Bloomberg news, under the terms of the agreement, Israel will buy solar power from Jordan. This is Eileen Wray-McCann.

2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

Utilities and grid operators prepared for the storm as it was coming down the pike, but they still underestimated the energy demand it would trigger, as well as the number of outages at fossil fuel power plants—mainly natural gas-fired, plus some coal-fired plants.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). In other words, the Earth came within 30 ppm in CO2’s atmospheric concentration of witnessing the extinction of most land-based plants and all higher terrestrial life-forms – nearly a true climate apocalypse. Read more here.]

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Stroud Water Research Center Hosts 4 Workshop Series On Becoming A PA Certified Meaningful Watershed Education Experience Ambassador Starting April 19 [PaEN] -- Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil (..)

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Clear cutting forests and compacting and covering healthy soils for large-scale solar farms threaten to replace the vast array of benefits, with polluted runoff degrading streams, increased nuisance flooding, loss of critical wildlife habitat, and even the release of soil carbon back into the atmosphere.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

Australia’s bushfires, for example, will undoubtedly cause a jump in carbon concentrations in the atmosphere this year, and this affects us all. In Morocco, the Ouarzazate Solar Power Station is the world's largest concentrated solar power plant. Do you believe there is evidence for leap-frogging? Absolutely.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Here’s why the claims are wrong: UCS has pointed out that while gas burns cleaner than coal at a power plant, it is far from a “clean” fuel because it still results in significant toxic air pollution. Methane is more than 80 times as powerful at warming the planet over a 20-year time frame than carbon dioxide. .

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2024

It was a sorry exclamation point on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s assessment that 2023 was the Earth’s warmest year on record. The top states for solar power growth since 2014 are Texas and Florida.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The United States currently emits at least three times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all 54 nations in Africa combined. Four of the top five congressional districts for solar power output are also in Republican districts. In the 1980s, such disasters cost the nation an average of $21.4

Climate Change

Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The monitoring of the atmosphere, of the surface of the Earth, of what’s going on in the ocean and under the ice — all of that is overwhelmingly funded by the federal government.”. Yes, wind and solar power are rapidly becoming economic options. The data gap problem. Former Obama science adviser John Holdren.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

The new global record in the generation of renewable energy was powered primarily by solar and wind. Solar power has been the fastest growing source of electricity in the world for 19 years in a row according to Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2024. percent of the globe’s electricity in 2015, solar now produces 5.5

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Over the last 12 years, I wrote eight columns on the Koch network’s escapades, including: Its attempt in 2012 to scare consumers about the cost of state renewable energy standards, which require utilities to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels by increasing their use of wind and solar power.

Fossil Fuels