Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

2024 had some bumps in the road for environmental protection. Attacks on nature, clean energy, and livable communities filled the headlines. Building a Clean Energy future Nearly 85% of Canadas electricity comes from non-carbon polluting sources. But what about for 2025?

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

The Environmental Council of the States and the Environmental Protection Network reported this week the President's Budget Request issued on May 2 would cut over $1 billion going to states to administer federal pollution control and permitting programs, eliminating 16 of the 19 categorial state grants.

Pollution Control

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

At the Pennsylvania Energy Summit on April 22, industry leaders and policymakers will tackle key challenges, policy shifts, and the clean energy transition shaping the states future. Shapiros Lightning Plan is driving clean energy expansion, grid resilience, and economic growth. Zerfuss, PUC Commissioner, U.S.

Earth Day

A Greener Life

JULY 3, 2025

In China, new energy solutions are helping to create more adaptive, multifunctional systems that co-evolve with nature. As a result, the energy transition has become more than a path to decarbonisation; it’s now a catalyst for systemic transformation. Photo credit: Shutterstock.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

Visit the PA Parks & Forests Foundations Events webpage and DCNRs Calendar of Events for activities happening near you. For more information on state parks and forests and recreation in Pennsylvania, visit DCNRs website. Resource Links: -- Gov.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

The researchers proposed a new geothermal-assisted compressed-air energy storage system that makes use of depleted oil and gas wells the Environmental Protection Agency estimates there are around 3.9 By storing excess renewable energy and releasing it when needed, energy storage contributes to grid stability and reliability.

Technology

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection is still accepting applications for the Shared Energy Manager Program to help local governments, authorities and school districts reduce energy costs, consider renewable energy alternatives and implement local climate action plans.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 2, 2025

Department of Environmental Protection found that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) was not doing enough to attain the “actual, measurable, and permanent emissions reductions” of the state climate law. In 2016, the landmark decision in Kain v.

2018

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 25, 2025

Take Action: Learn More Understanding AI’s environmental implications is crucial for being more mindful about its use and for asking representatives to design and implement appropriate policies and regulations.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

But smarter approaches, if carefully applied, could help to reverse costly reliance on gas, and accelerate the clean energy transition in PJM, and nationwide. Both moves could help get more clean energy onto the grid. of the proposed generation in the queue.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

On May 20, the Department of Environmental Protection issued notices of violations to XTO Energy, Inc.-- an ExxonMobil Company-- for failing to restore five multi-million gallon shale gas water impoundments it used to support fracking operations in Butler County.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

The US Environmental Protection Agencys Solar For All program provides financial incentives and support for solar installations, covering the costs of installing solar panels to benefit income-limited residents of rural, urban, and suburban regions of the Commonwealth. Our economy would suffer without it.

Clean Energy

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

The law, passed by Governor Phil Murphy in 2020, requires the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to evaluate the environmental and health impacts on overburdened communities (OBCs) when reviewing applications for new facilities. However, its effects are far from underwhelming and are instead trailblazing.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The Community Advocates For Clean Energy will host a November 13 webinar on EPA's Clean School Bus Grant Program from Noon to 1:15 p.m. Click Here to register and for more information. Posted: November 6, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We can expect a renewed energy strategy that ramps up and scales up fossil fuels, removes any fee on fossil fuel producers, removes the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) powers to regulate emissions, and revokes Biden’s ban on oil and gas production in environmentally sensitive areas.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

On March 10, Mom Clean Air Force , local partners and community members announced they will be testifying against MarkWest Energy's application for a third expansion to its cryogenic facilities at the Harmon Creek Gas Processing Plant, Smith Township, Washington County.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The election of Donald Trump and a Republican Congress poses a direct threat to environmental protection and climate policy across the board, including destructive agency heads, reduced clean energy funding, abandoned international agreements, and more federal judges openly hostile to science-based regulation in service of public and environmental (..)

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

On May 22, the Environmental Hearing Board issued a ruling in an appeal of a DEP water supply contamination determination involving the CNX Gas Company that agreed with a Center for Coalfield Justice assertion there was acute danger in CNX misusing a deposition in the case to punish an environmental advocate for her advocacy against CNX. [

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Here are 153 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

JUNE 26, 2025

On June 25, Appalachian Voices and a coalition of nonprofits, Tribes and local governments sued the Trump administration for unlawfully terminating the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant programs despite a congressional directive to fund them. Click Here for the lawsuit announcement.

Government

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Solar For All program provides financial incentives and support for solar installations, covering the costs of installing solar panels to benefit income-limited residents of rural, urban, and suburban regions of the commonwealth. Our economy would suffer without it.”

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Women and youth insisting that their perspectives, solutions, and leadership be centered in decisionmaking on climate change, environmental protection, and socio-economic development. Litigators pursuing climate justice and corporate accountability, backed by climate science and social science.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

The letter notes that funding cuts below fiscal year 2024 levels will undermine environmental protections that promote prosperity and human health of people across the country. State and local agencies have to invest significantly more funds beyond the statutory match requirements to meet their delegation commitments.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

On April 24, the Department of Environmental Protection announced two strategic partnerships that will expand energy job opportunities across the Commonwealth while helping small and mid-sized manufacturers reduce costs, lower emissions, and stay competitive in a rapidly evolving energy economy.

Technology

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Balancing Environmental Protection with Economic Development: The Greenland Mining Dilemma By Suhana Roy The principle of sustainable development is a principle of international law that reconciles the right to development with the need to protect the environment.- billion, nearly ten times Greenland’s annual budget.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

"We are thrilled to see HB 362 advanced through the House Energy Committee, bringing us one step closer to activating the benefits of the Solar For All program, including lower electric bills, new jobs, and a more reliable and resilient power grid," said SUN Action Pennsylvania Program Director Monica Carey.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection will host an April 1 webinar to provide an opportunity for the public to learn more about the Departments approach to implementing a federal program to reduce methane and other pollution from existing oil and gas operation s-- both conventional oil and gas and shale gas wells and infrastructure.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

PA Trout Unlimited; PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Diversity - Equity - Inclusion (DEI) -- David Hess Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

On January 21, the Department of Environmental Protection and Roulette Oil & Gas Co., LLC signed a consent order and agreement requiring the company to plug a shale gas well that was abandoned for 8 years in Hebron Township, Potter County.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2025

February 27-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 10:00- Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Snowden at dsnowden@pa.gov or (717) 783-8846. formal notice ) February 26-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 1:00- Department of Agriculture. House Floor.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the May 31 PA Bulletin inviting comments on the state plan to implement an EPA federal rule 40 CFR Part 60, Subparts OOOOb and OOOOc Reducing Emissions Of Methane and Other Pollution from Oil and Natural Gas Operations.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

If you’ve wondered what is in the US Environmental Protection Agency Employees’ Declaration of Dissent urging Administrator Lee Zeldin to “change course by re-committing to his oath to protect the health of the American people and our environment” -- this is the text. Like you, EPA employees are committed to these principles.

Environmental Protection

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Trump’s triumphant return to power promises to be a disaster for environmental protection, casting a pall over all else. Even so, if you’re someone who cares about energy and environment, there are some things to be thankful for this year Here are a few. Falling prices of renewable energy. Clean energy investment.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

On March 18, a bipartisan group of 51 former US Environmental Protection Agency officials sent a letter to Congress highlighting the risks associated with deep cuts to the agency. Environmental Protection Agency during Republican and Democratic administrations. We stand ready to assist in any way we can.

Clean Air Act

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. Clean energy generation increased. One target is Michigan’s climate law that requires 100 percent clean energy electrical generation for utilities by 2040. Coal production dropped. Much cleaner.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Because of these findings, oil and gas produced waters fail to meet the EPA's [US Environmental Protection Agencys] criteria for beneficial reuse of industrial waste. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] Click Here for a copy of Dr. Burgos testimony.

Natural Gas