Environmental News Bits

JUNE 1, 2023

The Treasury Department and Department of Energy announced new guidance Wednesday for a 30% tax credit available under the Internal Revenue Code’s section 48C for the construction of facilities that focus on clean energy manufacturing and recycling, industrial decarbonization and critical minerals processing.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 5, 2022

As Starbucks has grown into one of the world’s premier coffee stores, it has been challenged to deal with its carbon footprint, waste, and recycling. The post Starbucks Runs 66% of its Stores Globally With Clean Energy. The Goal is 100% appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. How is it doing?

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Cresforum

JANUARY 30, 2024

The source of these critical minerals and how they are used, recycled, and reused was top of mind for the panelists during their discussion. . Some key issues impacting our capacity to scale up clean energy include the permitting process, sourcing of our materials, and creating a recycling process.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 20, 2022

As the world rolls out more solar panels, wind turbines and batteries, we’re cleaning up electricity — and generating a lot of equipment that will ultimately need to be recycled.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 30, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $127 million to small businesses working on clean energy technology, representing a total of 110 projects in 26 states. Funding is provided by DOE’s science and energy program offices, the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and the Office of Environmental Management.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The renewable energy transition involves harnessing epic forces of nature. Sleek solar panels forged from silver and silica from the depths of the Earth translate the sun’s blindingly fiery light energy into electricity. Once the battery looks up to code, it is off to the grid to power our renewable energy future!

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On November 16, 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a proposed rule to expedite the environmental review process for certain renewable energy infrastructure projects through the use of categorical exclusions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 10, 2023

California has been at the forefront of everything from limits on greenhouse gas emissions and 100% renewable energy requirements, to a human right to water. We are at a critical moment in California where the clean energy and transportation transition is well underway, yet the stakes are high if we don’t get that transition right.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2022

On December 7, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced it has begun providing renewable natural gas (RNG) for the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority in Bellefonte, Centre County, supporting a transition to a cleaner, low-carbon fuel produced from organic waste.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

On February 16, Sheetz , a family owned and operated restaurant and convenience store chain, announced a long-term renewable supply agreement with Constellation Energy to power nearly 70 percent of its Pennsylvania facilities with renewable energy.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 30, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $127 million to small businesses working on clean energy technology, representing a total of 110 projects in 26 states. Funding is provided by DOE’s science and energy program offices, the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and the Office of Environmental Management.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While today’s carbon fiber and fiberglass require lots of energ y to produce and are hard to recycle , incorporating more bio-materials into their composites and developing new recycling technologies can reduce their footprint. Can wind turbine blades be recycled? The company aims to make all its blades fully recyclable by 2030.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 12, 2022

It also shows positive environmental results — made possible because of its eco-friendly packaging and its use of renewable energy. The post How MorningStar Farms Is Increasing Its Sustainability Efforts appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. MorningStar Farms is delivering more than just plant-based foods.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 12, 2022

It also shows positive environmental results — made possible because of its eco-friendly packaging and its use of renewable energy. The post How MorningStar Farms Is Increasing Its Sustainability Efforts appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. MorningStar Farms is delivering more than just plant-based foods.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. The post GM Has Become an ‘Energy Star’ with Efficiency and Circular Programs appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Read the full story at Recycling Today. Nth Cycle, a metal processing and recycling technology company based in Boston, has been awarded a $250,000 grant by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) through its InnovateMass program. Read more →

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

To reach its goal, access to renewables grew by 900 megawatts. Now, more than 25% of its purchased electricity comes from clean energy. The post Dow Is Buying Renewables and Cutting Waste In Its Environmental Quests appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 17, 2022

In its 2019 Sustainability Report, the Prysmian Group said it was committed to combating climate change and to increasing its recycling rates. Running its operations on renewable energy is critical. Its record?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2022

What’s more basic, more natural, than sunshine?” -- Clean Energy Cooperative, Honesdale, Wayne County “On behalf of the Clean Energy Cooperative, I would like to thank the PA Solar Center for this recognition,” said Chris Weigand, President of Clean Energy Cooperative.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Assaad Razzouk is a Lebanese-British entrepreneur based in Singapore, a board member at Client Earth , and commentator on clean energy. With our green lifestyle choices, “we are scraping together mere pennies reducing reusing and recycling (for example), while oil companies burn hundred dollar bills.”. By Jeremy Williams.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2021

On December 15, Chad Forcey of the PA Conservative Energy Forum told members of the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee it is “commited to clean and renewable energy and energy diversity in the Commonwealth.” Quoting former U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

He has spent his career championing environmental issues like clean air and water, advocating for a transition away from fossil fuels, and promoting clean energy solutions such as energy efficiency, wind, solar and geothermal. Joe is a sought after environmental voice and leader across the state and the region.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Kingsley Shale Gas Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with lube oil to meet the Statewide Health Standard at the pad located in Monroe Twp., Read more here. Bradford County. ( Bradford County. ( Centre County. ( Lycoming County. (

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2022

The clean energy industry is continuing to deploy significant amounts of storage to deliver a low-carbon future. Having enough energy storage in the right places will support the massive amount of renewables needed to add to the grid in the coming decades. Energy storage has big obstacles in its way.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2023

Acquires PA-Based Plants & Goodwin Well Plugging Firm To Create Methane Emission Offsets House Environmental Committee Holds May 22 Hearing On Hydrogen Hubs & Climate Change PUC Alerts Consumers To Electricity Price Changes Coming June 1-- From 20.7%

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for clean energy looked unstoppable. percent and energy use rebounded by only 4.3

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

Transition quickly to renewable energy As much as 95% of West Bengal’s 10.7 What’s missing, though, are proactive policies, such as attractive net metering policies that encourage institutions and households to invest in solar rooftop systems and become energy producers.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2021

. -- Katie Rever, IGS Energy. -- Joel Harrington, Enel North America. -- Brent Alderfer, Community Energy. -- Leslie Elder, Coalition for Community Solar Access. -- Tim Mills, Program Manager, Renewable Energy Division, ARM Group (Renewable Works for PA). Click Here to watch a video of the hearing.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2022

To High Prices] Guest Essay: Embrace The Renewable Energy Future Now Before It's Too Late - By Ralph Kisberg, Responsible Decarbonization Alliance DEP Awards 4 Grants Totaling $2.9 17 Help Wanted: DCNR Chesapeake Bay Community Tree Specialist Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults WeConservePA Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

I was excited to learn about investments in the green hydrogen-powered Constellium aluminum facility in the Ravenswood area, which offers incredible opportunities for a local manufacturing renaissance using clean energy and far cleaner fuels, in addition to creating well-paying union jobs with great benefits that sustain families and communities.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Waste Stream, Producer Responsibility Standards Emerge - Northeast Recycling Council -- PennLive Guest Essay: When The Power Grid Goes Out, Could Solar And Batteries Power Your Home? Reducing Methane From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities NOT On Environmental Quality Board Agenda For Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- EQT Corp. PA Bulletin, page 2795 ) -- LOLA Energy Petroco LLC - Polaris Well Pad: DEP approved a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated by Aluminum, Barium, Boron, Chloride, Iron, Lithium, Manganese, Strontium, Zinc, Vanadium, and Selenium for the facility located in Oakland Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Million In Grants To Schools, Businesses, Local Governments To Switch To Zero- Or Low-Emission Vehicles; Next Round Of Applications Due Dec. 15 [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Loyalsock Twp.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48—that’s an area comparable to or even smaller than the fossil fuel industry’s current footprint. Fortunately, the answer is relatively little. Rooftop solar deployment, meanwhile, doesn’t require any land.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. The scale of the IPCC’s undercount shocks once applied to the EU’s “clean” energy plans. million cars to the road.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Led by the Clean Energy Cooperative, the project stakeholders were able to utilize community knowledge and experience acquired from similar past projects to create a cost-effective plan for the array that was supported by numerous for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and by Wayne County. Thomas P.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

For years, companies outside of directly green sectors like renewable energy saw ESG roles as non-profit-generating, and those employees were put in compliance or marketing departments. For example, where car makers are setting up electric vehicle departments or energy firms are setting up renewable energy operations.”

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