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PUC Invites Comments On Petition To Issue A Policy Statement On Electric Utility Rate Design For Electric Vehicle Charging

PA Environment Daily

. -- Air pollutant reductions and human-health improvements – the DEP Electric Vehicle Roadmap indicates that a number of Pennsylvania counties consistently exceed EPA human-health standards for ozone and fine-particulate matter. The burning of transportation fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, is a substantial source of air pollution.

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Evangelical Environmental Network Thanks Gov. Shapiro For Defending Children's Health Thru An Agreement With CNX Natural Gas; Believes In Repenting Of Sins, 2nd Chances

PA Environment Daily

Shapiro and CNX natural gas taking steps to better monitor air emissions from certain shale gas drilling operations-- “Clean air and pure water are a constitutional right and are essential to defending our children’s health and lives from the multiple threats imposed upon them by the fossil fuel industry.

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DEP Publishes Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy Changing Permit Review Process; Opens Comment Period Setting 9 Public Hearings

PA Environment Daily

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators. Click Here for the PennEnviroScreen Tool.

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Disinformation Alert: Fossil Fuel Interests Preparing to Deploy False Claims about New EPA Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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The State of the Air in 2024? Not Great

Union of Concerned Scientists

I enjoy doing outreach and education about electronics with kids. That means it includes the extreme wildfires exacerbated by the fossil fuel industry that burned more than 4% of California in 2021 and 2022. come from burning fossil fuels and pesticide use, and ultrafine particles (PM0.1)

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Evangelical Environmental Network Celebrates House Passage Of Community Solar Energy Legislation In PA

PA Environment Daily

The mission of ENN is to inspire, equip, educate, and mobilize evangelical Christians to love God and others by rediscovering and reclaiming the Biblical mandate to care for creation and working toward a stable climate and a healthy, pollution-free world.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. James To Resolve Village Of Reno Water Contamination Issue In Venango County [Polluted By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill] [ PDF of Article ] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Vote Sept. Posted: August 27, 2023] PA Environment Digest