PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2025

At the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), our job is to make sure that essential utility services-- electric, natural gas, water, wastewater, telecommunications, and transportation-- remain safe, reliable, and affordable for Pennsylvanians. And that starts with education. And right now, we need that inspiration.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2025

4-8 [PaEN] -- Penn State University To Host Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 21 [PaEN] -- Call For Presentations: PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Oct. 4-8 [PaEN] -- Penn State University To Host Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 21 [PaEN] -- Call For Presentations: PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Oct.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

20 RiverWatch Video Report -- Post-Gazette: PA Farmers Turning To No-Till Farming Focusing On Bottom Line, Human Health -- Penn State Extension Conservation Cornerstone: Jan. 20 RiverWatch Video Report -- Post-Gazette: PA Farmers Turning To No-Till Farming Focusing On Bottom Line, Human Health -- Penn State Extension Conservation Cornerstone: Jan.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

12 Webinar On State Road Budget Impacts Of Electric Vehicle Transition [PaEN] -- Community Advocates For Clean Energy Host Nov. 25 Webinar On Private Water Supply Testing, Education; Helpful To Those In Oil & Gas Drilling Areas Which May Impact Water Wells [PaEN] -- Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Dec. 14, Ends Jan.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Of Environmental Educators Now Accepting Nominations For Annual PAEE Awards, Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences Awards [PaEN] -- Help Wanted: Foundation For Pennsylvania Watersheds - Grants Program Administrator [PaEN] -- USGS Releases New Video: Susquehanna River Story - What Does The Science Say About Water Quality?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- PJM Interconnection Reliability Initiative Attracts 94 Applications For 26.6 Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

19 & 21 -- Reading Eagle: Frequent Met-Ed Power Outages In Southeastern Berks Called Into Question -- July 31 Webinar - Why Is My Electricity Bill So High? 19 & 21 -- Reading Eagle: Frequent Met-Ed Power Outages In Southeastern Berks Called Into Question -- July 31 Webinar - Why Is My Electricity Bill So High?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. 23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept. 7, 21, Sept. Tioga County [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Commonwealth Court Rules Elizabeth Twp.,

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

January 28-- Senate Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure Committee hearing on understanding your electric bill, what are you paying for power? January 27-- NASEO Hosts Webinar On RISE PA Decarbonization Grant Program, PA Energy Programs For Industry. 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Hearing Room 1, North Office Building. 8:30 to 9:30.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Greg Rothman (R-Cumberland) -- TribLive Guest Essay: Summer’s Triple Threat - Energy Bills Rising, Grids Straining, Help Shrinking - By Destenie Nock, Peoples Energy Analytics -- Tribune-Democrat: 114 MW Wind Farm Under Construction At Rock Run ATV Park In Cambria County [ PDF of Article ] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Eos Energy Receives $22.7

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

PA- $$3.35 -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs At 15, Same For 10 Weeks -- Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance, Black Appalachian Coalition, PennFuture, Partners Host March 4 Webinar -- Why Is My Electricity Bill So High? Companies For Natural Gas Power -- WITF/LancasterOnline: New Owner Plans A.I. Ohio- $2.92

Politics

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Files Proposed Cold Weather Standard To Improve Reliability For Natural Gas-fired, Other Electric Generators [PaEN] -- Gov. Files Proposed Cold Weather Standard To Improve Reliability For Natural Gas-fired, Other Electric Generators [PaEN] -- Gov.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Shapiro Touts Plan To Expand Energy Markets In PA While York County Seeks Balance -- The Center Square: Watch: Former DEP Leader Stumps For Shapiro Energy Plan -- PUC Enhances Energy-Savings Program For Low-Income Households -- The Derrick: FrenchCreek Twp., Million In Growing Greener Plus Grants From DEP -- Volunteers Needed!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Shapiro Touts Plan To Expand Energy Markets In PA While York County Seeks Balance -- The Center Square: Watch: Former DEP Leader Stumps For Shapiro Energy Plan -- TribLive Guest Essay: You Deserve Affordable Electricity [Not Gov. Visit DEPs Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Theres A Lot At Stake -- PA Capital-Star: Presidents Plan To Dismantle Federal Education Dept. Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- PJM Interconnection Reliability Initiative Attracts 94 Applications For 26.6 Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- PJM Interconnection Reliability Initiative Attracts 94 Applications For 26.6

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Visit DEPs Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities. Posted: June 1, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2025

20-22; PJM Working With Gas Generators To Try To Get Them Online Before Extreme Cold Hits [PaEN] -- Shapiro Administration Urges Readiness In Advance Of Dangerous Cold Weather -- Bloomberg: Wintry Blast To Unleash Snow, Test Electric Grids From Midwest To NYC -- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.11 Ohio- $3.14 Ohio- $3.14 Ohio- $3.14

Politics

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Ohio- $3.18

Politics

New Scientist

JUNE 11, 2025

Read more Microturbines can generate electricity from drinking water pipes Advertisement Now, Xuanhe Zhao at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues have developed a power-free water-collecting device that is about 0.5 metres tall and 0.1

2029

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Shapiro Warns Federal Education Cuts Could Crush PA Schools -- PennLive: Josh Shapiro For President? Shapiro Warns Federal Education Cuts Could Crush PA Schools -- WNEP: FAFSA Student Financial Aid Site Down After US Education Dept. Mass Layoffs -- TribLive: Western PA School Leaders Uncertain How US Education Dept.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Data Center Coming To Their Backyards -- AP: States Are Rolling Out Red Carpets For Data Centers, But Some Lawmakers Are Pushing Back [PA Included] -- Post-Gazette Editorial: The World Promised By A.I.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2025

The region’s strengths in high-tech education, energy (especially, we hope, nuclear power generation), access to water and, yes, even steel make it a prime candidate to become a national or international node in the developing AI economic ecosystem.

Nuclear Power

Physics World

MAY 28, 2025

Absurd yet powerful visual metaphors feature throughout. The falling man jettisons his reserve chute – nuclear power – and tries to knit an alternative using clean energy, mid-fall. The message is blunt: nuclear may not be ideal, but it works. Beyond his case for nuclear, Jancovici offers few firm solutions.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

1 -- The Allegheny Front: Slag Heap Goes Solar: New 15-Acre Solar Energy Facility To Break Ground In Pittsburgh -- LancasterOnline: Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant To Test Sirens Dec. 1 -- WVIA: Heating Bills To Rise 8.7% For UGI Gas Customers Starting Dec. 1 -- WVIA: Heating Bills To Rise 8.7% For UGI Gas Customers Starting Dec.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2025

Thank you for your leadership! -- Public Utility Commission Urges Consumers To Prepare For Extreme Cold Next Week [PaEN] -- PJM Interconnection: New All-Time Peak Electricity Demand Possible Jan. Robert Little -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. Ohio- $3.14

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2025

. -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - January 11 [PaEN] -- DEP Posted 84 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In January 11 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Hold Jan. One In Susquehanna County Now [ PDF of Article ] -- WHYY/BillyPenn: Why Gov.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Of Energy LNG Gas Export Facility Plans Will Pollute Communities, Raise Prices - By Alex Bomstein, Clean Air Council -- Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance, Black Appalachian Coalition, PennFuture, Partners Host March 4 Webinar -- Why Is My Electricity Bill So High? And Going Higher?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2025

Zoning Board Holds Hearing On Potential Solar Energy Facility -- WHYY: Philadelphia Receives $11 Million For Electric Vehicle Chargers -- Citizen Voice: Frigid Temps Lead To Ice Jam Concerns On Susquehanna River -- 8 New Videos Feature Ecosystem And Community-Focused Research By PA Sea Grant; Research Grant Proposals Due Feb.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Data Center, The Countrys Largest Natural Gas Power Plant [ PDF of Article ] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Homer City Reinventing Itself As Datacenter Campus With Lots Of Natural Gas Power To Supply It -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Homer City Coal Power Plant Site To Become A.I.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Shapiro At Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart Event -- City & State PA: With Amazon Data Centers Moving In, PA Lawmakers Weigh Innovation vs. Oversight In A.I. Ohio- $3.00

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

PA Interfaith Power & Light May 1 to 31 Caring For Every Body Moving Through Nature Bike & Hike -- Lehigh Valleys Wildlands Conservancy Highlights April Educational Programs; Tree Planting; Hikes; Summer Camps -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Its Spring!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2025

Shippensburg University, Chesapeake Bay Foundation Host South Mountain Climate & Land Use Exploration For Educators August 13-- Senate and House Agricultural & Rural Affairs Committees Information Session At Penn State Ag Progress Days. August 4-8-- In-Person. Data Centers In York County -- Tribune-Democrat: Homer City A.I.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Martin -- DEP Briefs Water Resources Committee On Proposed Changes To PAG-13 General Permit For Small Municipal Stormwater Dischargers; Latest Emerging Contaminants Sampling Results; Microplastics Study [PaEN] -- PUC To Host Nov. 24 Meadow Seeding For A Hands-On Stormwater Solution.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Of Environmental Educators Conference March 10-12 In Erie [PaEN] -- Educators Invited To Southwest PA Environmental Literacy Coalition Online Meetings Oct. Of Environmental Educators Conference March 10-12 In Erie [PaEN] -- Educators Invited To Southwest PA Environmental Literacy Coalition Online Meetings Oct.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2025

June 4-- House Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 948 (Ciresi-D- Montgomery) prohibiting the blocking of electric vehicle charging stations; House Bill 1239 (Hanbidge-D-Montgomery) preventing owners association from blocking installation of solar energy. Hearing Room 1 North Office Building. Click Here to watch live.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2024

30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here! 15 [PaEN] -- One United Lancaster: Lancaster Celebrates $1 Million Federal Grant For Street Tree Program -- Schuylkill Action Network To Hold Annual Meeting Nov. 19, April 25 [PaEN] -- One Beautiful Planet Seeks Volunteers For Nov. 16 Levittown Lake Cleanup In Bucks County.

Nuclear Power