PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Completes Successful Lithium Extraction From Shale Gas Wastewater At Susquehanna County Pilot Plant [PaEN] -- Inside Climate News: Kiley Bense: Truckers Say Oil & Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations, Fracking Industry Says No -- PUC Distributes $164.5 Blast Furnaces, Carbon Emissions -- Register Now!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

. -- DEP Declares Code Orange Air Quality Action Day Thursday, June 12 In Southeast And Southwest PA -- Delaware River Frack Ban Coalition Launch Initiative To Defend The Delaware River Watershed From Oil & Gas Fracking [PaEN] -- MCall: Is Ban On Fracking In Delaware Watershed At Risk?

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Shapiro's 'Lightning' Energy Plan To Lower Energy Costs, Create Jobs, Protect Pennsylvania From Global Energy Instability [PaEN] -- PUC Hearing On Data Center Growth Impacts Finds 30-40% Of Utility Demand Could Be From Data Centers; Concerns About Stranded Costs; Major Commitments To Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Energy Use [PaEN] -- Gov.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

True, Congress hasn’t passed the comprehensive emission limits that many of us would like to see. But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. The fee is designed in a way that reinforces EPA regulations of methane emission.

Law

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2025

With recent regulation changes and incoming commitments, the growth may soon take off. And $90 billion of private sector investment was announced at the Pennsylvania Energy & Innovation Summit. And that demand is only going to grow. What that will means for electricity customers is unclear. Who pays for these upgrades?

Electricity

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. MINNESOTAThe utility commission approved an Xcel Energy plan to achieve 100% clean power by 2035.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- WHYY: Gov. Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- WHYY: Gov. Rules Room (no video). Off The Floor TODAY 12:30: Agenda Posted.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

Katie Muth (D-Chester) noted Please correct me if Im wrong, there's nothing in any law, statute, regulation, rulemaking policy within PJM that says that residential and critical infrastructure, electric grid needs have to be fulfilled [first] and insured prior to the approval of these giant power-using projects like a data center.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 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 GW [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction Price 9 Times Higher Than Previous Auction-- $269.92/MW-Day

Electricity

Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2025

Transportation is now the largest source of carbon emission in the U.S. Normally, only the federal EPA can regulate tailpipe emissions from vehicles. But theres an exception that allows California to regulate if it gets a waiver from EPA, and then allows other states to piggyback on California standards.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Three days later, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the three independent agencies responsible for regulating banks, withdrew from a collaboration among the agencies to create guidelines on climate-related financial risk. Industry representatives such as the American Petroleum Institute and U.S.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

Muth Seeks To Protect Pennsylvanians From A.I. Data Center-Fueled Rate Hikes -- TribLive: Springdale Planning Commission To Review Plans For Proposed Massive A.I.

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. Stoked by billions more tons of carbon emissions from coal combustion, global temperatures are rising, more powerful storms are inundating communities, deeper droughts threaten the planet’s supply of food.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

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Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

In March 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finalized a regulation that would compel publicly traded companies to assess and report on how climate change will affect their bottom lines and, by extension, investors and the public. The SEC rule was targeted for elimination by a major oil and gas industry trade association.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The transformation to an economy fueled by clean energy – across sectors – has begun, and he can’t stop it. trillion in tax incentives, grants and loans over ten years to stimulate faster and broader cuts in carbon emissions than would occur in their absence. And he’ll pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2025

EPA has managed to come to the conclusion that carbon emissions from the power sector do not significantly contribute to climate change. emissions), EPA’s solemn conclusion is that they’re no biggie. Second, “only extraordinary emission reductions on a global scale would have any impact” on climate impacts.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Trump set in motion agency efforts to rollback all Biden-era environmental regulations relating to climate change. Key targets include regulations substantially limiting carbon emissions from coal-fired powerplants, cars, and trucks. Pausing funding for environmental and clean energy projects.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2025

EPAs efforts to regulate carbon emissions from powerplants have had a tortuous history, and were about to go through another round, with a rule from a Democratic Administration being repealed and replaced by a Trump rule. Second, after a careful analysis of the text of the statute, the D.C.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 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 GW [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction Price 9 Times Higher Than Previous Auction-- $269.92/MW-Day

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

reduction in carbon emissions in 2024, or 406,000 metric tons of CO2e emissions avoided. This marks the first year that 2030 District Partners have hit the target goal of achieving a 50-65% reduction in carbon emissions by the year 2030 since the Pittsburgh District was founded in 2012. energy reduction 33.3%

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

GW To Move Forward To Address Near-Term Electricity Demand Growth-- 39 Upgrades, 12 New Construction [PaEN] -- PUC Hearing On Data Center Growth Impacts Finds 30-40% Of Utility Demand Could Be From Data Centers; Concerns About Stranded Costs; Major Commitments To Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Energy Use -- North American Electric Reliability Corp.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

GW [PaEN] -- House Energy Committee Hears Testimony On How PA Has Enough Geothermal Energy To Meet 100% Of Pennsylvanias Electricity, Heating Energy Needs [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network Celebrates House Passage Of Community Solar Energy Legislation In PA [PaEN] -- Sen. And Saved $44.2 And Saved $44.2

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Greene County [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil Well Storage Tank Rupture Causes 2,100 Gallon Spill Of Wastewater, Crude Oil In Upper Burrell Twp., Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- 6-Inch Conventional Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Causes Spill In Rostraver Twp.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

Muth Seeks To Protect Pennsylvanians From A.I. Data Center-Fueled Rate Hikes -- TribLive: Springdale Planning Commission To Review Plans For Proposed Massive A.I.

Electricity

Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

These included Biden climate-change regulations, but also protections against air pollution that are important to public health and water pollution limits for coal plants. Apparently, EPA means to challenge the massive scientific evidence that human carbon emissions are causing dangerous climate change.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

He has launched an illegal effort to claw back $20 billion in EPA clean energy funding significantly targeted for disadvantaged communities. Returning to the EPA in top spots for chemical regulation are Nancy Beck and Lynn Dekleva. Zeldin may be inexperienced at regulation, but none of the above are.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 And Saved $44.2

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

At AWS, we share these concerns and are committed to being responsible partners in grid development and energy consumption. We've demonstrated this commitment through our Climate Pledge goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. In 2007, Google committed to carbon neutrality in its operations.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

Muth Seeks To Protect Pennsylvanians From A.I. Data Center-Fueled Rate Hikes -- TribLive: Springdale Planning Commission To Review Plans For Proposed Massive A.I.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

Pennsylvania has historically been an energy leader, but were falling behind other states in the necessary transition to clean energy. GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 And Saved $44.2

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Regulation Ban From Republican Federal Budget Bill -- TribLive: President Promises To Raise Tariffs On Imported Steel To 50%, Praises US Steel Deal -- The Center Square: President: No Shoddy Steel From Shanghai -- Post-Gazette: The Mon Valley Is Back, Renewed Hope In Region; $2.2

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Shapiro Provides Update On The Fight To Lower Energy Prices, Calls On General Assembly To Move His Commonsense Lightning Energy Plan [PaEN] -- PA Elected Officials, Consumer, Clean Energy Advocates Demand Electric Grid Operator PJM Act To Hold Down Electricity Costs [PaEN] -- Bloomberg: US DOE Orders 760 MW Eddystone Peaking Power Plant In Delaware (..)

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 GW [PaEN] -- Fox45: PA Republican Sen. And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 GW [PaEN] -- Fox45: PA Republican Sen. And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 GW [PaEN] -- Fox45: PA Republican Sen.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For example, the comparative advantage in energy efficiency of a compressed ignition engine used in a diesel truck as compared to a spark-ignition engine fueled with gasoline or natural gas is much greater at high loading (like in tractor trailers) compared to lower loads like delivery vans.

2027

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

Skip to main content Scientific American June 12, 2025 7 min read Inside the EPA’s Attempt to Roll Back Climate Regulation The EPA has contradicted itself—and legal precedent—in its bid to undo Biden-era limits on power-plant climate pollution By Jean Chemnick , Niina H. Bush administration, disagreed.

Regulations