PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Tom Mehaffie [Microsoft - Three Mile Island Deal] -- Utility Dive Guest Essay: US Is Facing Unprecedented Electricity Load Growth, Heres How We Ensure Resource Adequacy - By Samuel Newell, The Brattle Group -- Observer-Reporter Guest Essay: Shapiros Energy Policies Will Cause Us To Pay More - By Sen.

Politics

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

PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 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

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- Better Path Coalition: Data Centers - Dirty Energy Deals Anything But Cheap [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: Talen Energy To Sell Amazon 1.9 Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

We Are Going To Run Out Of Power, If We Dont Move Forward Rep. Thomas Mehaffie (R-Dauphin) , a member of the Committee, noted in 2018 a baseload power plant was shut down in his district [Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant]-- Dont make the same mistake. GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2

Electricity

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

March was also the first month in history in which non-fossil resources (renewable energy and nuclear power) supplied more than half of US electricity. The most powerful reason for optimism around US renewable energy, though, is the clear advantages that renewables can offer. Job creation and local economic development.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

We've demonstrated this commitment through our Climate Pledge goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. Note: Vantage Data Centers has a goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions for scopes 1 and 2 by 2030.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Billion From Nippon Steel Set Aside For Mon Valley Facilities -- Wall Street Journal: Nippon Steel To Invest $6 Billion To Cut Carbon Emissions In Japan -- AP: US Government To Have Control In Nippon Steel- US Steel Deal, President, McCormick Say -- TribLive Editorial: Now Its On You, Nippon Steel [Posted: June 1, 2025]

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

. -- AP: States Are Rolling Out Red Carpets For Data Centers, But Some Lawmakers Are Pushing Back [PA Included] -- MCall Guest Essay: Congress Cant Protect Us Without Protecting Clean Energy - By Tinku Khanwalkar -- Inside Climate News: Alabamians Want Answers About A 4 Million Square Foot A.I.

2025

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

MARCH 3, 2025

With Nuclear Energy - By Carol Browner, Fmr EPA Administrator -- Financial Times: Is Giving Old Reactors New Life The Future Of Nuclear Energy? . -- March 3 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb.

Natural Gas

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

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

Our colleague Mary Nichols echoed that sentiment to the SF Chronicle, saying “this leaves California much less subject to challenge if we say we want to regulate carbon emissions. “If I were the state of California and the endangerment finding gets rescinded, I would argue that there are no federal standards,” she told Heatmap News.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2 Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

Even casual followers of energy and climate issues have probably heard about the alleged wonders of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). The failure of these projects to come in on time and under budget undermines arguments that modern nuclear power plants can overcome the problems that have plagued the nuclear industry in the past.

Nuclear Power

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.

Climate Change

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

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Unlike natural gas or coal generation, nuclear plants do not need to be continually fed new fuel supplies to produce electricity." “It It is also worth noting that these nuclear plants are providing this reliable, around-the-clock power without releasing carbon emissions." Read more here.

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

However, the bill’s definition of what constitutes clean energy includes nuclear power (which doesn’t emit carbon but isn’t “clean”) and fossil gas power plants that capture and store at least 90 percent of their carbon emissions.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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. New data center proposals can be of the scale of nuclear power plants and some even seek to connect directly to existing nuclear plants.

Electricity

Physics World

OCTOBER 28, 2021

First up I look at some of the latest developments in energy research – wind, solar, nuclear and energy storage. I’m joined by Daniel Kammen from the University of California, Berkeley, in the US, whose research interests span renewable energy, nuclear power and public policy.

Nuclear Power

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Grohnde plant is one of the German nuclear power plants which is due to shut down at the end of 2021. A recent report has shed light on the scale of the climate cost of Germany decommissioning its nuclear power plants. Photo credit: Preussen Elektra. By Anders Lorenzen.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2024

. - A Life Dedicated To The River's Flow [PaEN] -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Marshall Middle School Wins Western PA Science Bowl, Moves On To Nationals In April -- MCall: Judge Upholds Lehigh Valley Township’s Ruling Against Building Warehouses On Golf Course -- Spotlight PA: PA Pays Property Owners For Land Lost To Eminent Domain, But (..)

Nuclear Power

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ontario Power Generation has been quietly selling off Clean Energy Credits from its hydro and nuclear power to businesses in the United States since about 2013. Ontario businesses that are attempting to lower their carbon footprint can no longer count their electricity use as having low emissions.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2024

Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept. 15-18 [PaEN] -- Juniata College Raystown Field Station: Leave No Trace Level 1 Instructor Course June 29-30 [PaEN] -- Natural Lands Preserves 95 Acres Of Forest, Waterways, Historical Farm In Chester County [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - Wildlife As Pets?

Nuclear Power

Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2021

In 1978, during a phase of the Cold War when relationships between East and West began to relax, the United States and 4 other nuclear powers (China, France, the Soviet Union and the UK) made unilateral declarations granting security assurances to non-nuclear- weapon states. By Christoph Schwarte* .

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

PACER Under PACER, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will calculate a Pennsylvania-specific cap on carbon emissions and hold our own independent PACER credit auctions. Abney, and our legislative partners and co-sponsors for their support of this bold and forward-thinking plan.”

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

. -- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Agriculture To Get Greater Voice In Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Effort -- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: $40 Million+ Heading To PA Farms To Increase Climate Resilience -- Lower Susquehanna Source Water Protection Partnership Holds Virtual Meeting Dec.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

clean hydrogen industry that creates good-paying jobs, while also reducing carbon emissions. The Treasury Department’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) provides definitions of key terms in the statute, including lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, qualified clean hydrogen, and qualified clean hydrogen production facility.

Regulations

Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

The amount that the Senate has proposed diverting from the RGGI fund for FY 2017 is more than 80% of the total value of RGGI auction proceeds earned by New York in FY 2016 (which totaled approximately $166 million ). Clearly, the diversion of RGGI proceeds to the general budget and for workforce development is at odds with these requirements.

Nuclear Power

A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Japan, a long-time supporter of nuclear power, now has serious hydrogen ambitions. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be powered by hydrogen. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. There is talk that a global “hydrogen economy” can emerge to save the climate from carbon emissions.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Summary Of House Bill 2277 PRESS continues all of the successful elements of the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards (AEPS) while making it more inclusive—adding nuclear power, next generation technologies like fusion, and clean forms of natural gas for the first time.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The decision to ditch coal was the biggest single action of its time to cut carbon emissions in North America. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. The reason given is that gas is needed to fill an upcoming drop in nuclear capacity.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition to all those benefits, solar schools projects have immense local benefits such as reducing carbon emissions and creating family sustaining jobs.” “With the savings, local governments can reduce taxes and schools can invest in more teachers. Fiedler was joined by labor, educational and environmental leaders.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In June, the Committee was scheduled to consider House Bill 1215 (Vitali-D-Delaware) that would have required hydrogen producing companies to sequester a larger portion of carbon emissions to receive a state tax credit under state Act 108, but the Committee passed over the bill. Read more here.

Recycling