Circle of Blue

APRIL 16, 2025

Fewer carbon emissions, less fossil energy use. Farmers cut their operational costs less money spent on seeds, fertilizer, energy or shifted from corn to less water-intensive crops, and were less wasteful with the water they had, producing yields that were a bit smaller than before but not drastically so.

2013

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2025

Related Articles: -- PUC House Budget Hearing: We Arent Going To Build Our Way Out Of Electric Generation Shortfalls On PJM Grid; We Need To Diversify Our Generation Sources [PaEN] -- Frozen Hoping For A Thaw: Eastern PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project To Repurpose Fmr Coal Waste Plant Site Into Solar Energy, Mine Water Pool Energy (..)

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2025

In conclusion, while the proximity of data centers can reduce certain aspects of carbon emissions, the broader environmental impact, including energy sources and resource consumption, must be considered. AL: How can we make AI and ChatGPT greener?

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

This decision came after more than three years of legal arguments, dozens of Plum’s residents speaking out to defend their local environment, and continuous cooperation between Plum Borough and Protect PT to keep toxic fracking waste out of residential communities. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Carbon Emissions

Vermont Law

MAY 7, 2025

The misleading environmental marketing (greenwashing) claim focuses on Exxons involvement in promoting forms of recycling as a viable solution to the plastic waste crisis, while knowing that recycling would never work at scale. California chronicles the different public relations campaigns that Exxon and its predecessors employed.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- PA Trout Unlimited, 17 Other Environmental, Conservation Organizations Expressed Opposition To Proposed DEP Changes To Spill Reporting Requirements [PaEN] -- Republican Sen.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2025

Kate Harper (R), former member of PA House, and former Congressman Conor Lamb (D) are Co-Chairs of Energy Future PA Related Articles: -- PUC House Budget Hearing: We Arent Going To Build Our Way Out Of Electric Generation Shortfalls On PJM Grid; We Need To Diversify Our Generation Sources [PaEN] -- Frozen Hoping For A Thaw: Eastern PA Coalition For (..)

Fossil Fuels

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Reducing carbon emissions across the food industry is an impactful and cost-effective approach to mitigating climate risks across the globe. Download the report. This playbook explores a roadmap for food industry decarbonization, focusing on energy efficiency and management.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Blast Furnaces, Carbon Emissions -- Register Now! Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Penn Energy Savers Rebates Are Coming Soon To Help Eligible Households Upgrade To Energy Efficient Appliances, Do Building Retrofits [PaEN] -- City Of Reading Begins Energy Efficiency, Solar Energy Project To Save $13.3

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Murrow Award For Reporting On Shale Gas Drilling In PA - Fracking In Pennsylvania Hasnt Gone As Well As Some May Think -- Martins Ferry Times Leader: PAs Austin Master Services Abandoned Frack Waste Plant Cleanup In Martins Ferry, OH Slated For Completion -- AP: Oil And Gas Have Boomed In New Mexico, Its Schools Are Contending With Pollutions Effects (..)

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

The Canadian firm Bifarms Ltd is buying Stronghold Digital Mining and the Scrubgrass and Panther Creek coal waste power plants which were already dedicated for cryptocurrency operations, as are other coal waste plants. Read more here. Read more here. from other sources. GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2

Electricity

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

When plants decompose or are burnt, they release the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) they had absorbed from the atmosphere. One idea to prevent this CO 2 being released back into the atmosphere is to bury the waste biomass under conditions that prevent or slow decomposition, thereby trapping the carbon underground for centuries.

Waste

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

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Shapiro: FERC Approves Settlement With PJM To Prevent Unnecessary Prices Hikes, Save Consumers Over $21 Billion On Electric Bills [PaEN] -- North American Electric Reliability Corp. Billion Olympus Energy Shale Gas Deal -- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Corp.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] -- Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] -- Gov. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Here are 189 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 3060 ) -- Waste Management of Fairless, LLC - GROWS Landfill Gas Flares: DEP issued Air Quality Plan Approvals for 3 landfill gas flares at the facility located in Falls Twp., Received March 25, Issued April 11. ( Bradford County. Received April 4, Issued April 11. ( Bucks County.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Shapiro Lost His Home, Tried Suicide, Waste Melting Down -- AP: Suspect In Arson At Gov. Shapiros Residence Planned To Beat Him With A Hammer, Documents Say -- TribLive: Arson At PA Governors Residence Universally Condemned -- WTAE: PA Lawmakers Issue Statements After Governors Residence Set On Fire In Harrisburg -- Gov.

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

APRIL 25, 2025

. - - Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [Its Not A Suggestion] House Voting Schedule May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 24 June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30 -- Committee Schedule Senate Voting Schedule May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule TODAYs Calendar Of Events (..)

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Dauphin County -- PennDOT Focus On Innovations, Including Using Environment-Friendly Products, EV Charging Build Out -- LevitttownNow.com: Waste Management Opens $131 Million Landfill Gas Facility In Falls Twp., Megawatts -- PennLive: 22 Bay Electric Vehicle Charging Station Opens In Lower Swatara Twp.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

18 Abandoned Conventional Wells S R Star O&G LLC - Violations: 11 Abandoned Conventional Wells, Failure To Report April 23, 2025 a follow-up inspection of 11 conventional wells in Slippery Rock Township, Butler County found the wells abandoned, unplugged and failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Plucked From Front Yards Escalating Rising Tensions -- TribLive: Survey Finds Ignorance, Fear Surrounding Nuclear Waste Cleanup In Parks Twp., Other Events -- Williamsport Sun: Susquehanna Trout Unlimited to Hold Stream Cleanup April 19 On Lycoming Creek -- Berks County Agricultural Center To Host April 23 Open House , 8:00 a.m.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

coal waste) -- PA Chamber of Commerce Business & Industry -- Marcellus Shale Gas Coalition -- Industrial Energy Consumers of Pennsylvania Rep. 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

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Of Health Briefing On State Response To Leak Now Available On Demand [PaEN] -- DEP: Updates Community On Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leak Response In Upper Makefield Twp., Billion Olympus Energy Shale Gas Deal -- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Corp.

Natural Gas

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

Bresnahans Office Over Medicaid Concerns -- PennLive: PA US Senator McCormick Says Senate Will Protect Vulnerable Under Medicaid And Target Waste [Democrats Warn Republicans Are Simply Gutting A Major Healthcare Safety Net For Millions] -- WITF/WVIA: PA Republican Con.

Politics

Yale E360

JUNE 18, 2025

With “fast fashion,” retailers are selling a larger volume of cheaper clothing, leading to more waste. Marks & Spencer and Primark currently run take-back schemes to address waste. consumers now get rid of 1.5 million tons of clothing yearly, and Ghana is the top destination for their discarded garments.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

The owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. The owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports have never been submitted. These wells were never inspected by DEP.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Wants Pennsylvanias Power, So Its Buying 2 Stronghold Waste Coal-fired Power Plants In Carbon, Venango Counties -- Post-Gazette: How Cryptocurrency Is Mined And Why Canadian Bitcoin Mining Co. With Nuclear Energy - By Carol Browner, Fmr EPA Administrator -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Canadian Bitfarms Cryptocurrency Mining Co.

Conservation

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 9, 2025

To increase energy reliability and security, the Authority seeks to promote-- -- The development of energy resources indigenous to Pennsylvania. GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 And Saved $44.2

Air Pollution

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

APRIL 25, 2025

Shapiro's 'Lightning' Energy Plan To Lower Energy Costs, Create Jobs, Protect Pennsylvania From Global Energy Instability [PaEN] -- New Report: Fixing PJMs Broken Electric Generation Approval Process Can Lower Energy Costs, Create Jobs Across The Mid-Atlantic [PaEN] -- Gov.

2025

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2025

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Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For 72 - 2.5 Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Air Pollution