PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

The uprates apply to existing natural gas (1.978 GW), nuclear (496 MWe), coal and onshore wind resources. Of the new projects, half are gas (6.143 GW), five are batteries (2.275 GW) and one is nuclear (887MWe). The projects consist of 39 uprates and 12 new construction proposals. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

PJM remains overly dependent on fossil fueled generation. Unconstrained LNG exports will raise domestic natural gas prices by at least 30% by 2050, further increasing electricity costs. Plus, there's a backlog on new gas turbines that stretches well into the 2030's, and tariffs will make all construction more expensive.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Files Proposed Cold Weather Standard To Improve Reliability For Natural Gas-fired, Other Electric Generators [PaEN] -- North American Electric Reliability Corp.: 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

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

Instead, House Bill 502—tied directly to his ‘Lightning Plan’—serves fossil fuel interests while removing the very tools communities use to protect themselves. “At Similar efforts in the past including the SPEED program have resulted in majority fossil fuel project approvals. Read more here.] Click Here for letter.

Government

Enviromental Defense

JULY 21, 2025

Simply stated, more pipelines mean that more fossil fuels are pumped or mined from the ground, which are eventually burned, producing more greenhouse gases. As my colleague Emilia Belliveau says, “pipelines enable more fossil fuel use. We need less.”

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Eddystone is a peaking electricity generation facility with a capacity of 760 MW that burns either natural gas or oil, depending on market conditions. Units 3 and 4 were installed in 1967 and 1970 and are old steam units that are less efficient [therefore more costly] to operate than newer natural gas power plants.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

“You can see the kind of mix that cleared in this past auction, a vast majority of which of course is natural gas. The cleared resource mix includes: 45% natural gas, 21% nuclear, 22% coal, 4% hydro, 3% wind and 1% solar. Obviously to use more than this. Click Here for a recording of the briefing.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2025

Today, we are here outside of their headquarters calling on PJM to institute massive queue reform to move clean projects forward, not hand out fast passes to the fossil fuel industry that skyrocket prices for ratepayers. "We GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

API specifically targets Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules to reduce carbon emissions from automobile tailpipes and fuel economy standards established by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Pump up gas. API markets these proposals as bolstering the country’s geopolitical strength.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4% Billion Olympus Energy Shale Gas Deal -- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Corp. Files Proposed Cold Weather Standard To Improve Reliability For Natural Gas-fired, Other Electric Generators [PaEN] -- Gov. Ohio- $2.99

Politics

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

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2025

billion tons of carbon dioxide a year, a little less than the entire country of Russia. The Trump Administration is proposing to end all regulation of carbon emissions by power plants, on the theory that these emissions should be considered insignificant. power sector’s emissions are only 3% of global emissions.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- 6-Inch Conventional Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Causes Spill In Rostraver Twp., Gigawatt Homer City Generation Natural Gas Power Plant For Data Center In Indiana County [PaEN] -- Gov. Megawatts -- PennLive: 22 Bay Electric Vehicle Charging Station Opens In Lower Swatara Twp.,

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

Despite the industrys recent retreat from climate policies and harassment of sustainable-investment advocates , a significant number of shareholders supported a resolution asking the company to justify its expansion of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

Natural] gas is not baseload power. Baseload power means that you have ample fuel supply for over three months. And I get there's plenty of gas out there, but that's all on demand. I think we absolutely need to continue to use natural gas. So coal and nuke are the only two that are baseload power on demand.

Electricity

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

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

If we want to power the burgeoning AI economy and keep the lights on for average citizens at the same time, we must stay flexible about how that electricity is generated with the “all of the above” approach: meaning primarily natural gas in the short term followed closely by nuclear, hydro, battery and other storage, wind, solar, etc.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

In response to the bills passage, Carolyn Heckman, Associate Director of Pennsylvania Policy for EEN Action, released the following statement: The expansion of community energy can and will defend the health and lives of our children by making clean, renewable energy accessible to more Pennsylvanians. And Saved $44.2

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Michael Eakin Dies -- International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas -- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.15 PA- $3.26 -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Up 1 to 18 Again -- Gov. Ohio- $2.94

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

MARCH 9, 2025

Million In Solar For All Funding From Self-Imposed Freeze [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front/WPSU: Solar Power Supporters In PA Say Outlook Is Positive, Even As Policies Could Change Under President -- City Of Reading Begins Energy Efficiency, Solar Energy Project To Save $13.3

Conservation

Yale E360

MAY 19, 2025

CEphoto, Uwe Aranas Having shut down its last remaining nuclear plant Saturday, Taiwan is working to secure new imports of natural gas. Analysts say the move will make the country more reliant on imported fossil fuels and more exposed to spikes in the price of gas.

Natural Gas

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

He accused the Biden administration of enacting the rules to kill off “baseload” coal and natural gas generation. ” The repeals, he said, would save fossil fuel generation and advance President Donald Trumps "energy dominance" agenda. “That was the intended consequences.”

Regulations

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

One such survey involved 130,000 people in 125 countries, which account for 96% of the worlds carbon emissions, and was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. China to buy Russia LNG instead of US gas: China has completely stopped imports of liquified natural gas from the U.S. CBD plans to sue.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

It's not just enough for us as a Commonwealth to reduce our reliance on fossil fuel infrastructure. Diversifying our grid not only enhances our energy security but also defends our childrens health by reducing harmful air pollutants and carbon emissions. Peter Schweyer. We thank Gov.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

-- DEP Invites Comments On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities; 7 Hearings Set [PaEN] -- DEP: XTO Energy Failed To Restore 5 Multi-Million Gallon Shale Gas Water Impoundments In Butler County [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 24 (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

“We also lament the proposed repeal of protections to limit carbon pollution from carbon-based power plants. The oil and gas industry has known for decades that failing to capture their carbon emissions would harm communities, families, and businesses by fueling more extreme weather, as witnessed last year in Asheville, NC. “At

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The destruction caused by climate change is directly linked to human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels. There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

But as the market grows, some urge caution before using wastewater to create renewable natural gas. Like all other industries, the clock is ticking for the sector to cut its carbon pollution, given President Joe Biden’s goal to halve the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

It turns out that most of them are 50-60% reliant on fossil fuels, with a lot of the remainder coming from nuclear and hydro. However, there are important differences in the mix of gas and coal in generation, which matters a lot since coal-fired generators emit much more carbon per kilowatt. Fossil Fuel Use.

2030

Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

With economic growth have come carbon emissions. As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It attempted to move away from fossil fuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. Fossil fuel plants — coal-fired power plants in particular — cause serious air pollution problems. EPA might well get substantial reductions in carbon emissions this way.

Clean Air Act

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

. – Ontario has launched the second phase of a program to expand fossil fuel gas pipelines to new communities. This per-customer subsidy would likely cover the entire cost of switching these customers to existing low carbon technologies, like geothermal and air-source heat pumps.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

CO 2 emissions remain mostly level through 2050—nowhere close to meeting US climate goals. Carbon emissions remain high. This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico’s carbon emissions are about the same as those of Texas, the highest-emitting US state. Per capita emissions, however, are far lower, given Mexico’s much larger population. AMLO has come under criticism for his commitment to fossil fuel production and refining in Mexico.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Standards for carbon and methane emissions from new sources Permitting requirements for carbon emissions from new stationary sources of major sources of existing pollutants. Standards for emissions from new vehicles.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2022

As a result, when today’s fossil fuel end uses can be directly electrified via renewables instead, such as for heating in buildings , it is overwhelmingly a better decarbonization path. Geographic diversity, with hubs to be located in different regions of the US and using energy resources that are “abundant” in that region.

Fossil Fuels