PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2025

Discharges from sewage, wastewater, or cooling water also require NPDES permits. "On-site Additionally, variability in cooling technologies leads to differing proposals for water withdrawals and discharges, complicating both water resource and wastewater permitting. Click Here for a copy of DEP's testimony.

Cooling

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

They also help address climate change by cooling the air and sequestering carbon. Trees, especially when planted as riparian buffers, are the most cost-effective tools for cleaning and protecting waterways. Trees filter and absorb polluted runoff, stabilize streambanks, and improve soil quality.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

In addition to being climate-friendly, its small footprint and ability to meet site-adjacent heating and cooling needs eases pressure on land use and wildlife. John Walliser is senior vice president of legal and government affairs for the Pennsylvania Environmental Council.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Grantee activity has been both innovative and successful, from cooling tower evaporation capture for reuse to satellite leak detection technology. impoundments, inactive quarries, and underground mine pools); -- Projects that modify operations to increase drought resilience or improve environmental flows (e.g.,

Conservation

A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2025

With the controversies around biases, Deepseek’s sensitivity, and criticism of the Chinese government, this question would test how well ChatGPT scrutinises itself. This months question With the growing debate about ChatGPT’s and other LLMs’ carbon footprints, the question that would kickstart this series was rather obvious.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 23, 2025

Through this three-part blog series, we’ll examine the hidden environmental consequences of AI and data centres, and what we, at Environmental Defence, think our government should do about it. These facilities operate 24/7, consuming vast amounts of electricity and require extensive cooling systems to prevent overheating.

Government

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 3, 2025

Collaboration among industry, government and educational institutions should also be used to create comprehensive training programs that align with emerging port technologies and regulatory requirements. It takes bold industry players like Crowley to lead the way toward port decarbonizationand, lets be honest, eWolf is just a cool name.

Nitrogen Oxides

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In her interview with a rickshaw puller whose daughter had to be admitted to the hospital many times during the heatwave, it showed that legal action and response were intrinsically linked with addressing economic inequity, the right to housing, and access to cooling.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

ARRI is a coalition of groups, including citizens, the coal industry, and government dedicated to restoring forests on coal mined lands in the Eastern United States. The federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative released its Spring multi-state tree planting schedule.

Cooling

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

Physics World

JULY 31, 2025

TEPCO has also been pumping water into the reactors since the accident to cool them. The cooled water is then treated using the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS), which removes all radioactive materials from the water except for tritium – which is very difficult to remove and has a half-life of 12.32 ±0.02

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept. Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Your morning newscasters or social media feeds typically give you “ stay cool ” tips in advance of a heat wave, or a hurricane warning for your coastal city may show you maps or list areas under mandatory evacuation order due to projected dangerous storm surge.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

Alongside many other economies, electricity use in China is growing at a strong pace due to several factors, such as the electrification of society, increased demand for cooling and increased consumption of IT services such as data centres. Globally, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing the demand for electricity.

2027

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Impacted By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill] [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: April 2 Webinar: Gravity Energy Storage - Giving Inactive Oil Wells A Second Life [PaEN] -- Penn State Research: Reusing Old Oil And Gas Wells For Energy Storage Using Compressed Air Technology [PaEN] NewsClips: -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: PA Attorney General Launches (..)

2011

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2025

House Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 502 (Steele-D- Allegheny) fast-track energy generation projects of 25 MW and larger and energy storage facilities of 10 MW or larger overriding local government control and public input [ Read more here ]; House Bill 1239 (Hanbidge-D-Montgomery) limits the ability of homeowner's associations (HOAs) (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

Impacted By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill] [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: April 2 Webinar: Gravity Energy Storage - Giving Inactive Oil Wells A Second Life [PaEN] -- Penn State Research: Reusing Old Oil And Gas Wells For Energy Storage Using Compressed Air Technology [PaEN] NewsClips: -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: PA Attorney General Launches (..)

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

MAY 12, 2025

and Canadian governments passed legislation and signed landmarks pacts in the latter half of the 20th century to protect the lakes against pollution and exploitation from interests outside the basin that were eying one of the worlds largest sources of surface fresh water. The project tracks todays geopolitical pulse. For the U.S.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2025

Indoor spaces are safe if they are sufficiently cooled, but households with fewer resources may not have air conditioning or may not be able to afford to run it. But not all states make LIHEAP funds available to households for summer cooling costs. Parts of Ohio will have seen nearly a week under “extreme” conditions.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2025

Shapiro: Wait Times Cut For Permits Even Further; DEP Reduced Permit Backlog By 94% -- TribLive: Protect PT Appeals Environmental Hearing Board Approval Of 2 Penn Twp.

Politics

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Whether it is installing solar panels, upgrading irrigation systems, or modernizing heating and cooling equipment, these projects help reduce electricity consumption and increase energy independence, saving money that can be reinvested in the business. solar, wind, biomass, geothermal) or make energy efficiency improvements (e.g.,

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

The Trump government wants to dismantle the climate and weather science conducted by NOAA because evidence of a warming world resulting from burning their products is a pesky reality for the fossil fuel industry that gave millions to his campaign. This is not speculation. This is very, very harmful.

2010

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. Before Trump’s assault, water consumption to cool coal-fired plants, once one of the largest users of fresh water in the country, was on the path to be cut 68 percent by 2035, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 25, 2025

TODAY 10:00: House Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 502 (Steele-D- Allegheny) fast-track energy generation projects of 25 MW and larger and energy storage facilities of 10 MW or larger overriding local government control and public input [ Read more here ]; House Bill 1239 (Hanbidge-D-Montgomery) limits the ability of homeowner's associations (..)

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 11, 2025

We’ve grown used to the convenience of technologies that quietly run in the background: automated garage door openers, heating and cooling systems, and medical devices. In places without cooling or heating, indoor temperatures become unsafe. But when the power goes out, that ease quickly turns into disruption. Parents miss work.

Cooling

Physics World

JUNE 17, 2025

In fact, when a group of academics and government representatives gathered at Chicheley Hall back in 2013 to hatch plans for the UK’s National Quantum Technologies Programme , healthcare was one of the main applications they identified. Sense about sensors The importance of quantum science to healthcare isn’t new.

Technology

Circle of Blue

MAY 13, 2025

government was trying to replenish the fish population. It was cooled by an ice and salt mixture. Theres been great collaboration between the Great Lakes states and the federal government. It wasnt the first on this site. An earlier hatchery was built in 1894. Federal fish stocking only slowed the decline. The fishery is a $5.5

Natural Resources

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2025

447) Local government (438) Public lands (54) National parks & forests (45) State government (182) U.S. Type your email Subscribe Top Posts & Pages Want climate solutions in Indigenous territories? Better get consent. DOE (19) U.S.

Recycling

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

Keeping Data Centers Cool Data centers store information and perform complex calculations for businesses, whose increasing automation is steadily ramping up such needs. So they need to be constantly cooled. Roughly 40 percent of the electricity consumed by an ordinary data center is for this purpose.

Wind Power

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

These are all questions of governance, which are being explored by the Emmett Institutes project on geoengineering governance. heating targets; Its biggest problems are political, social, and legal (not scientific or technological): how to navigate and control it; and how not to let it trigger international conflict or destabilization.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 2, 2025

These risks are also compounded by reckless and ill-advised cuts to extreme weather protection resources across the federal government. In states where cooling assistance is available, only three (AZ, DE, GA) have date-based criteria—either specific dates or during summer months. Not all states opt in. reactively. reactively.

Cooling

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,” which is weirdly what Zeldin says he’s doing, is not a way to govern. Like so many of this administration’s policy rollbacks, this one looks strategic but is short-sighted. state and keeping a lid on prices.”

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Tropical cyclones such as hurricanes develop in the tropical oceans due to an imbalance in heat between the cool upper atmosphere and the warm ocean surface. If there is a greater imbalance in heat between these two regions, for example, a warmer ocean surface, then the hurricane can strengthen faster and become a more intense storm.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Of Revenue Reports February Tax Collections $44 Million (1.6%) More Than Anticipated; Up $104.3 Ohio- $2.80

Politics

Circle of Blue

APRIL 2, 2025

In aggregate, their power demands and water consumption for cooling have increased exponentially, prompting concerns about the sustainability of data center growth in the Southwest. If the local climate is right, they can use ambient air to cool their servers. Despite the environmental anxieties, there is reason for optimism on water.

Cooling

Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

East Coast to the North Atlantic, where it cools, sinks and then moves south. It heats the oceans waters so there is less cool water to sink and motivate the cycle. The water ministry intends to present the plans for government approval in the near future. This exchange plays a key role in weather and climate.

2018

Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

The first 100 days of the second Trump administration have proved volatile for local governments working to advance ambitious climate action. Several preliminary injunctions may apply to grants and other forms of federal financial assistance that flow to or impact local governments.

Government