PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Emissions have declined across most sectors, except for fugitive emissions from energy production (natural gas and oil systems), industrial emissions (both fuel consumption and process emissions), and agriculture emissions (resulting from agricultural soil management, liming, and urea fertilization).

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

9, York County. -- Penn State Extension Home Garden News: Houseplant Master Class Webinar Series Available; Treen Tenders Training; Good Gardening Saturday Series -- Pike Conservation District: From Source To Sink - Groundwater Education Workshop Series Starts Jan. 13 -- Pike Conservation District: Pike/Wayne Counties Contractors Workshop Feb.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Million To Settle Lawsuit By Investors Who Claimed EQT Overstated The Benefits Of Its Rice Energy Merger In 2017 -- Marcellus Drilling News: Integrated Lithium Production Plant Coming To PA In 2026 Using Oil & Gas Production Wastewater [PaEN] -- Marcellus Drilling News: Avonlea Lithium Corp.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Hutchinson Introduces Bill To Abolish DEP Climate Change, Recycling Fund, Coastal Zone Advisory Committees [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Stream Evaluation Reports In Berks, Clinton, Forest, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Lycoming, Pike, Potter, Tioga, Westmoreland Counties -- DEP Notice It Reorganized And Rescinded Water Program Technical Guidance, Permit (..)

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

PJM Overview Electricity prices in PJM, which serves all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, are rising dramatically due to a failure to transition to clean energy. Lack Of Clean Energy Transition The fundamental reason behind the price spike is the lack of a clean energy transition in PJM.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

While Wright acknowledges the reality of climate change, he deliberately misrepresents climate data and research to downplay the seriousness of the problem and to undermine proven solutions including transitioning away from fossil fuels and accelerating the transition to clean energy. Wind and solar are clean energy.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

EPA is reconsidering these regulations to ensure they do not prevent America from unleashing energy dominance and continuing our trajectory as a leader in clean energy and emissions reductions. “We The non-compliance even extends to annual reports the industry has to submit to the Oil and Gas Program.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Since January 2025, federal workers across the country have been denigrated and dismissed based on false claims of waste, fraud, and abuse. You acknowledged the realities of climate change, the benefits of clean energy, the economic need for environmental justice, and the importance of protecting human health through smart regulation.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

The Avonlea/Kendra II facility in Springville and the Gradiant/C2G facility in Montrose showcased groundbreaking technologies that recover lithium from fracking brine—reducing environmental waste while strengthening America's energy independence. These facilities represent the future of American energy,” said Congressman Meuser.

Nuclear Power

Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2025

The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), one of the most critical climate spending programs in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), has come under significant fire from the Trump administration. Under the Biden administration, EPA awarded the entire $27 billion in GGRF grants. President Trump now wants to claw much of that back.

Greenhouse

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

In the EOs, President Trump orders federal agencies and personnel to take certain actions or to report back on actions that could be taken in the future that would stifle federal clean energy programs, steer funding away from disadvantaged populations and communities, or both.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

5 -- Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M. Miles Of 4 Texas Eastern Natural Gas Pipelines To Allow For Longwall Coal Mining In Greene County [PaEN] -- PA Independent Oil & Gas Assn. Shapiro: Legal Action Against PJM Saved PA Consumers An Estimated $1.6 19-21, Sept. 19-21, Sept. 19-21, Sept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

By deploying these solutions, operators can lower costs, safeguard public health and prevent wasted resources. In 2023, oil and gas companies wasted $3.5 Meanwhile, delay of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program’s Waste Emissions Charge would eliminate $7.2 Last year, the  US Supreme Court  and  D.C.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

too fixated on degrading the democratic process to listen, Kail then delivered a textbook non sequitur, stating that since DEP rulemaking includes absolutely no legislative input, the agencys time spent in rulemaking is wasted. Or do we refuse to elect legislators who call our voices a waste? Or is that funding a waste?

Government

Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

In collaboration with the Department of Governmental Efficiency, EPA has attempted to cancel nearly 800 grant awards , variously citing wasteful federal spending and wasteful DEI and environmental justice initiatives. Pursuant to the Clean Air Act and the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v.

Government

Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2025

Among other things, Executive Order 14008 established the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and created the Justice40 initiative, which required 40 percent of the benefits of climate and clean energy investments to flow to disadvantaged communities. This action has been challenged in court.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

The benefits resulting from energy source diversification to include additional reliable clean energy sources does not diminish the role of other Pennsylvania energy sectors. Our current crisis demonstrates that the initial clean energy goals established under AEPS were far too modesttotaling only 8 percent.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: PA American To Provide Clean Drinking Water In Dimock To Replace Fracking-Contaminated Private Wells [ PDF of Article ] -- WVIA: PA American Water: Dimock Twp. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

For example, in November 2016, the Obama administrations Bureau of Land Management (BLM) promulgated a regulation to reduce waste of natural gas from venting, flaring, and leaks during oil and natural gas production activities on public and Tribal lands. Courts have generally granted these requests.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Shapiro has spoken extensively about the importance of clean energy. Shapiros term. Read more here ] -- Prioritizing DEP: During budget hearings in 2024, DEP estimated that the staff of its Oil and Gas Program, which oversees permitting and regulating the industry, was operating at about 75% capacity due to staffing shortfalls.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 10, 2025

The DOE could decide to shut down its Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, which helps launch emerging clean technologies, as early as next week, sources familiar with the matter have told Latitude Media. The point being that hes making unusual demands of staff.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

How Oil & Gas Waste Haunts Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- TribLive: Murrysville Council Denies Citizen Petition To Rescind Oil And Gas Leases Under Park Land In Westmoreland County -- Protect PT Hosts Nov. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here! 11 Information Session On Penn Twp. Of Agriculture, Land O'Lakes Farmer Cooperative, National Hemp Assn.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Mackenzie Needs To Fight For Federal Clean Energy Tax Credits -- MCall Guest Essay: Congress Cant Protect Us Without Protecting Clean Energy - By Tinku Khanwalkar -- Centre Daily Times - Climate Watch: Why Congress Must Not Pull The Plug On PAs Clean Energy Progress - By Lisa Richardson, Citizens Climate Lobby, State College Chapter -- TribLive Guest (..)

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

These investments are geared more toward increasing oil extraction than reducing emissions, as well as hoodwinking investors into believing fossil fuel companies can zero out their greenhouse gas emissions without decreasing production. million households for a year.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2025

Shapiros offer to work on legislation to make the electric grid more reliable, diversify Pennsylvanias energy generation, lower energy costs for ratepayers and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Pennsylvania is 45th in the nation in terms of investing in clean energy sources like wind, solar, and hydropower.

Electricity

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2025

The president hasn’t directly targeted the nascent industry, but his clean energy rollbacks could hurt it. Trump’s first 100 days Trump 2.0 post archive Research data management, open data, and data rescue post archive Trump’s second term is creating ‘a limbo moment’ for US battery recyclers Read the full story at Grist.

Recycling

Legal Planet

AUGUST 13, 2025

Late last month, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and the Energy Department rushed a report called “Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. This massive tax dollar-wasting infrastructure reform is based on the false premise that CO2 greenhouse emissions cause climate change,” another person wrote.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The IRA was passed into law to propel our nation’s clean energy transition forward. These have been the stalwarts of clean energy progress to date and will remain so moving forward. Treasury and the IRS are right to propose clear rules for solar- and wind-powered electricity generation.

Electricity

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

It is significant because if its huge public health benefits and because it has provided the basis for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. Provides for cleanup of hazardous waste sites. This California law imposes limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles, a breakthrough in U.S. Also known as the Superfund law.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a major—forthcoming—refresh for one of the biggest policy drivers of the nation’s clean energy transition to date: tax credits subsidizing the deployment of clean electricity resources. These incentives aren’t just historically important.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2021

On July 29, the Ohio River Valley Institute released a new poll of Pennsylvania voters which found by wide margins they support tougher regulation of the natural gas drilling industry, community regulation of drilling and the development of clean energy sources. The poll found voters are especially concerned about fracking waste.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a clean hydrogen production tax credit (known as “45V”) that is one of a slew of new incentives intended to help catalyze the next and necessary phase of advancing the nation’s clean energy transition as a whole. The costs will be too great otherwise.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to carefully implement multiple new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) tax credits, including the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen (“45V”). The December proposal makes clear that Treasury understands the critical importance of getting implementation guidance right from the start.

Clean Energy

Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Council’s draft plan recommends a broad array of regulatory measures, legislation, and other state actions across every sector of the state’s economy – any and all of which could have significant implications for New York’s clean energy markets for decades to come.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

But hydrogen can be cleanly produced and, with the right guardrails in place, that clean hydrogen can then be used to clean up polluting parts of the economy that can’t readily convert to running on renewable electricity. Otherwise, hydrogen will slow the clean energy transition, not speed it. the “three pillars”).

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

But in trying to shape a regulation that would mollify opponents—largely industries responsible for the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change—the SEC failed to relieve investors of responsibility for determining how companies will fare in the clean energy transition. It wastes time we don’t have.

Regulations