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

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Thandazile Moyo , assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering at Penn State, will give the talk, “Aligning with Recycling as a Strategy for Reliable Critical Metals Supply : Policies, Challenges, and Opportunities in the U.S.,” at 4:00 p.m. on October 28, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Now 55 years later, the same type of arguments are being recycled to attack Californias ACCII standards. Using only the past credits and 2026 plug-in hybrid sales would allow an automaker to meet the 2026 sales requirements with as little as 2 percent fully electric ZEV sales. Contrast Hondas lack of effort with that of Hyundai.

2026

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Advocates Put Out A Call To Action -- Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] -- TribLive: Plum Zoning Board Rejects Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well After Lengthy (..)

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Majority Chair House Environmental & Natural Resources Committee [ PDF of Article ] -- House Committee OKs Increase In Per Ton Recycling Fee To Support Local Recycling Programs, Waste Disposal Planning [PaEN] -- NextPittsburgh: Is Hyperlocal Recycling The Future?

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2025

Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Annual Conference Oct. Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Annual Conference Oct. Spoiler - Philadelphia Water Dept.

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies like CyrusOne and Microsoft are pioneering cooling systems that consume little or no water in their direct operations, not counting water used to produce their electricity. electricity use in 2023, up from 1.9% For desert areas like Maricopa County, water limits are being met with technological innovation.

Cooling

Law Columbia

MAY 13, 2025

This is particularly true with the DOE loan programs, where money appropriated for loans and loan guarantees may be leveraged, recycled, or intermingled with private funds. 50152 Grants to Facilitate the Siting of Interstate Electricity Transmission Lines DOE Sec. 60107 Low Emissions Electricity Program EPA Sec.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2025

Electricity Bills Are Projected To Surge 20% This Summer [ PDF of Article ] -- WESA - Rachel McDevitt: As More A.I. .; Electricity Bills Are Projected To Surge 20% This Summer [ PDF of Article ] -- WESA - Rachel McDevitt: As More A.I. PaEN] -- Reuters: PJM, America’s Largest Power Grid, Is Struggling To Meet Demand From A.I.;

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2025

2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 65 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Repairs to a timber bridge on the access road leading to the well were also not complete. DEP inspection report. Timberline holds 730 permits. Read more here.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Shapiro: FERC Approves Settlement With PJM To Prevent Unnecessary Prices Hikes, Save Consumers Over $21 Billion On Electric Bills [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: FERC Approves PJM Interconnection Electricity Capacity Auction Price Cap, Floor [Negotiated with Gov.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Host March 18 Webinar On Emerging PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Treatment Technologies [PaEN] -- Patch.com: Radnor Environmental Advisory Council To Host Lecture Series In Delaware County -- Call For Presentations: PA Assn. School Campus Could Save $10 Million -- TribLive: Developer Appeals Unity Twp.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

JULY 23, 2025

This is influenced by a combination of factors, including a slowdown in global steel production growth, increased recycling of scrap steel, and the potential for alternative steelmaking technologies, such as electric arc furnaces (EAF) powered by renewable energy.

Waste

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

MARCH 23, 2025

2 Pittsburgh Companies Say Yes -- Volunteers Needed!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2025

Data Center Boom Is A Job-Creation Bust -- Guest Essay: Significant Electricity Load Growth Can Be Accommodated Without A Stampede To New Natural Gas Generation Just By Increasing Efficiency At Existing Power Plants - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center For Energy Policy [PaEN] -- The Center Square: Gov.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Spoiler - Still A Risk] -- Pike Conservation District: The Connection Between Groundwater And Geology -- PennLive: Lancaster County Golf Course To Close Due To Sinkholes -- Protecting Clean Water Together: All Those Plastics You Thought You Couldn't Recycle? Comitta, Rep.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2025

Recyclable EV batteries Between now and 2030, battery electric vehicle retirements will increase rapidly and if we do not have a strong policy in place we could end up with batteries in landfills or being abandoned all together. Senator Josh Becker is authoring SB 540 to allow California to join a regional electricity market.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

28 - Recycling As A Strategy To Increase Critical Minerals Supply [PaEN] -- On The Kendal Journey Blog: Have Questions About Sustainability? . -- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh City Council Passed New Ordinance Authorizing Quality Of Life Tickets For Trash Violators -- State Officials Encourage Participation In Drug Take-Back Day Oct.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2025

Million To 74 Schools To Help Schools Lower Electricity Costs, Create Jobs Under Solar For Schools Program [PaEN] -- PA Capital-Star: PA Awards $22.5 Million To 74 Schools To Help Schools Lower Electricity Costs, Create Jobs Under Solar For Schools Program [PaEN] -- PA Capital-Star: PA Awards $22.5

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

21- Deploying Solar Energy Facilities Successfully -- Williamsport Sun: Lawmaker: Electrical Grid Facing Future Shortage Of Energy -- Guest Essay: Iceberg Ahead - Pennsylvanias Looming Power Crisis - By Sen. . -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 10.8% UGI Natural Gas Rate Increase [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: PUC Will Investigate Proposed 10.8%

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2025

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. Room B-31 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. April 24-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2025

Million In Brownfield Assessment, Cleanup Grants In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Alterra Energy LLC Thermochemical Plastics Recycling Plant Air Quality Permit Application For A Location In Luzerne County [PaEN] -- Registration Now Open! Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Annual Conference Oct.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

TODAY 10:00: House Local Government Committee meets to consider House Bill 620 (Isaacson-D-Philadelphia) would increase the state recycling fee from $2 to $5 per ton to support local recycling and waste disposal planning programs. Click Here to watch online. Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch online. March 20-- Agenda Posted.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2025

Data Centers Could Strain Electricity Supplies In The Delaware Valley -- Pittsburgh Business Times: TECfusions Unveils Plans For Massive Data Center, A.I. Customer Charge Increase By Wellsboro Electric; 18% Gas Increase + 13.4% Customer Charge Increase By Wellsboro Electric; 18% Gas Increase + 13.4%

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Courier Times: Shocked By Your Higher PECO Electric, Natural Gas Bill? to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Courier Times: Shocked By Your Higher PECO Electric, Natural Gas Bill?

Conservation

Legal Planet

JULY 16, 2025

Good News In China, electric vehicle sales are currently on track to outpace gasoline car sales this year, Bloomberg reports. Bad News In China, electric vehicle sales are currently on track to outpace gasoline car sales this year. Bad News In China, electric vehicle sales are currently on track to outpace gasoline car sales this year.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

As electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to increase, questions about how these cars and their batteries will be disposed of have been top of mind for current owners, future buyers, policymakers, and many experts in the automotive industry. Current lithium-ion battery collection, repurposing, and recycling network in North America.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Electric Vehicle (EV) battery recycling is crucial to a sustainable, electrified transportation system. A substantial portion of key minerals for electrifying could come from recycled batteries by 2050, dramatically reducing the need for new mining. The recycler takes the battery pack apart into smaller modules.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is necessary to decrease climate-changing emissions. These materials are primarily supplied through two sources: 1) newly mined or 2) recovered by recycling batteries already in circulation. This is in stark contrast to a future without high recycling rates. Recycling has many benefits.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2023

Electric transportation is essential for a cleaner and healthier world. Replacing gasoline vehicles with electric can reduce emissions that cause climate change and illnesses. Researchers like me are putting a microscope to the electric vehicles (EVs) because, as with any extraction and manufacturing, there are associated impacts.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Importantly, the BIL invests in electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling and repurposing– important strategies for increasing the sustainability of EVs. . The Department of Energy recently announced 10 recycling and repurposing projects that will receive a total of $73.9 million in funding.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Recovering these materials from retired electric vehicle (EV) batteries is an alternative source to mining. Essentially, the materials recovered through battery recycling can replace future material supply that would otherwise need to be extracted from the earth to meet demand.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries are essential for decarbonizing transportation through electric vehicles and building a resilient, renewable energy grid through energy storage batteries. Increasing the reuse and recycling of batteries at their end of life is essential to increasing the sustainability of batteries and creating a circular economy.

Recycling

Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The coalition's mission is to accelerate the deployment and use of sustainable aviation fuel technologies to reach 10% of the global jet aviation fuel supply by 2030. The post Air Canada Aims to Decarbonize Using Electric-Hybrid Aircraft and Sustainable Aviation Fuels appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

Electricity

Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The coalition's mission is to accelerate the deployment and use of sustainable aviation fuel technologies to reach 10% of the global jet aviation fuel supply by 2030. The post Air Canada Aims to Decarbonize Using Electric-Hybrid Aircraft and Sustainable Aviation Fuels appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

This transition will require an increase of minerals used in batteries that power our electric vehicles (EVs), trucks, and buses. When these electric transportation modes retire, the batteries’ usefulness continues. Even with diminished capacity, they can be reused, refurbished, or repurposed and then eventually recycled.

Recycling