PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This represents an unprecedented influx of state and federal support for clean energy in Pennsylvania, including a just-announced $303.5 million closed loan from the US Department of Energy for Eos Energy Enterprises, and has made the Pittsburgh region a clean energy gateway for the state.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

There are currently two states with transmission authorities: New Mexico with the Renewable Energy Transmission Authority (RETA) and Colorado with the Colorado Electric Transmission Authority (CETA). Both entities have the explicit intent of accelerating transmission development to facilitate clean energy and long-duration storage.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

By Shadia Haq Earth Day 2025 focuses on the theme Our Power, Our Planet and urges a global shift to renewable energy. 2025 The theme “Our Power, Our Planet” calls for tripling renewable energy by 2030. 2025 The theme “Our Power, Our Planet” calls for tripling renewable energy by 2030.

Earth Day

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We are disappointed to see the Ontario government make unsupported claims about the proposed federal clean electricity regulations. Ontario is going the wrong way when it comes to clean electricity.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Premier and her government are so focused on picking fights with Ottawa that they are missing the fact that there are now more people employed in the development of renewable energy around the world than people working in oil and gas. 57 per cent Leger) want to see the oil and gas industry’s pollution capped.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

Eligible projects must reduce industrial sector emissions through industrial electrification, efficiency and process emissions reductions, switching to low-carbon fuels, installing on-site renewable energy, utilizing carbon capture and storage, and reducing fugitive emissions from natural gas and oil systems and coal mining.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

Attacks on nature, clean energy, and livable communities filled the headlines. Speaking of homes, heating and cooling a home in Canada where we see 50 degree temperature swings over the course of the year requires lots of energy. 2024 had some bumps in the road for environmental protection. But what about for 2025?

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2025

And how would that approach compare to using renewable energy? Hydrogen can be made with zero-carbon electricity, including renewable energy like solar or wind (the result is sometimes referred to as green hydrogen ). Electrolysis is power hungry, and GPAT shows the renewable energy implications of that hunger.

Renewable Energy

Earth 911

AUGUST 7, 2025

To put this growth in perspective, solar panels are now being installed at a pace that would have seemed impossible just a decade ago, with predictions that the world could be installing one terawatt of solar annually by 2030—enough energy to power the state of California for a week-and-a-half.

Recycling

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

A Greener Life

APRIL 3, 2025

Africa sits atop an enviable wealth of minerals crucial for the worlds clean energy transition. By Femi Akinrebiyo Africa sits atop an enviable wealth of minerals crucial for the worlds clean energy transition. Yet renewable energy offers a transformative solution. Photo credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

New clean energy, including combined solar and battery projects, have waited (and waited, and waited…) in interconnection queues. Delayed construction of clean energy means grid planners like PJM are struggling with rising demand and the loss of power plants, at significant cost to consumers.

Nuclear Power

Environmental News Bits

MAY 20, 2025

National Grid, which owns the high-voltage electricity grid in England and Wales, is rebuilding it in a government-backed drive to attract investment and tackle climate change. Read the full story in the New York Times (gift article).

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

The Swiss public gives the final nod to boosting renewable energy With 97% of its broad gauge lines now transitioned, India has the second highest electrification rate of any major rail network in the world. It was in 2014 that the government ramped up ambitions and committed the funds for a fully electric railway.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Installed at Gifford Pinchot State Park in York County, the project reinforces DCNRs commitment to clean energy and cost-saving innovation, as well as the Commonwealths progress as a national leader in renewable energy. Click Here for video/photos from the event.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

Key updates reflect a dynamic landscape, from shifting deforestation rates in the Amazon to ground breaking initiatives in clean energy. GW, marking a significant shift toward non-hydropower renewable sources. Source: Ember Energy , available under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY-4.0)

2025

A Greener Life

JULY 10, 2025

This year’s Government Work Report also listed the programme as a key task within China’s “dual carbon” goals to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. According to the notice, industrial-park-construction projects can access support including existing public and local government funding channels.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

Discover how Renewell Energy is pioneering gravity energy storage to transform inactive wells into critical components of a sustainable energy future. The Renewell mechanical energy storage system can capture energy by lowering a weight down a well, producing clean energy by turning a regenerative winch.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The energy transition is now troubling the peace, and those alliances are shifting. As renewable energy takes over from fossil fuels, there is a tug-of-war underway to control the narrative. Szeman just comes out with it: “There is no good nationalism”, and climate change is too important to leave to governments to sort out.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 25, 2025

This report reveals the extent to which new Canadian production is vulnerable to weakening international demand, rising competition, and trade disruptions, putting industry investments and government revenues at risk. We shine a light on what can be achieved when governments, businesses, non-profits, and communities come together.

Sustainable Development

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

16 Webinar On Forest Carbon Markets And Payment Programs Expert Panel [PaEN] -- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Jan. 16 Webinar On Winter Salting and Local Waterway Impacts: Opportunities To Work For Change [PaEN] -- North Branch Land Trust: Jan. 18 Tree ID Hike In Forest Echo Bird Sanctuary, Luzerne County -- Jan.

Conservation

Environmental News Bits

MAY 23, 2025

Clean energy is creating new jobs in rural America, generating opportunities for people who install solar panels, build wind turbines, weatherize homes, and more. Three parts have been published … Continue reading Powering Rural Futures: A special series

Clean Energy

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. Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept.

Conservation

A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

IEA analysts expect this amount to remain relatively stable until around 2027, when consumption levels will start to level off as renewable energy sources start to play a more significant role, particularly in China – the worlds largest coal consumer and producer. billion tonnes in 2024.

2027

Enviromental Defense

JULY 9, 2025

Despite their role in driving climate change and inflating prices, oil and gas companies are heavily subsidized by governments in Canada. Instead of propping up an industry that is costing Canadians billions, those resources could be better spent on affordable, clean, renewable energy that benefits us all.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In his first term, Trump waged a war on climate science and banned government agencies from using the word “climate change,” which was also removed from government websites. The other element is that many climate and clean energy policies are set at the state level, and a Trump presidency can’t touch this.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

Here are 116 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. 1 -- Altoona Mirror: Peoples Gas Natural Gas Rates To Increase Jan.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Source: Olamide Martins Ogunlade The conference brought together representatives from local communities, grassroots leaders, civil society organizations, government officials, women’s groups, youth movements, environmental advocates, and international allies, toward the goals of advancing a just energy transition and building climate resilience.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Field preemption is a type of preemption that occurs when a higher level of government has regulated so comprehensively in an area as to exclude lower levels of government from regulating in the area, creating state uniform regulation. Field preemption can be express or implied. As explained in DJL Rest.

Law

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Solar Schools Technical Assistance Program To Help Apply For Solar For Schools, Other Funding Sustainable Pittsburgh: Report On Clean Energy Workforce - Needs And Opportunities For Southwestern PA Dept. Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

JANUARY 30, 2025

Renewables can close Africas energy access gap Closing the energy access gap is within reach. With the cost of renewable energy falling over the past decade, we are closer than ever. Governments need to advance reforms to make the energy sector more efficient and attractive to private investors.

2030

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen Data released by BloombergNEF (BNEF), the clean energy analysts body owned by Bloomberg , have shown that despite the uncertainty, on a global level, the cost of clean energy technologies continues to decline.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

However, if the proposed elimination of federal energy tax credits goes through, the damage to our business and many of those we work with could be irreparable." Both customers and employees support our renewable energy projects, notably our patented solar and wind-powered microgrid in Harmar, PA.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Degnan Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, will give the talk, “Repurposed Energy,” at 4:00 p.m. These obstacles include governance structures, political economy, decision-making dynamics and environmental justice concerns. on Monday, Nov. 4, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus.

Clean Energy

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. and elsewhere that are hostile to clean energy. Yet, despite all the drama in D.C.,

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Now more than ever, legislators need to be looking for ways to slow - and if possible reverse - the impacts of rising energy bills for their constituents. Last years House passage of similar legislation was a major step forward in creating this program, and were supportive of this bill making it across the finish line in 2025.

Renewable Energy