Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). gigawatts (GW) of planned solar projects expected to come online this year is almost double the previous 13.4 Solar” only includes large-scale solar.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Taxpayer money should go to climate solutions – like wind and solar power and energy storage. An investigation by the US Internal Revenue Service found that 87 per cent of the total credits claimed, amounting to nearly US $1 billion, were not in compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

On April 14, Department of Environmental Protection Acting Secretary Rich Negrin joined U.S. Earlier this month Pennsylvania opted into the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program, part of the federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

By next year, Pennsylvania will get 50 percent of its electricity from ten new solar arrays around the Commonwealth – making Pennsylvania the first state in the country to commit to getting half of its energy from solar power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

That’s why, since the price spike, the industry has doubled down on lobbying for weaker environmental protections to clear the way for more oil and gas production and the further lock-in of gas pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The fastest way to shift the transportation sector to environmental sustainability is to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is from transportation. Recently that has changed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

In any event, thoroughly documented permitting approvals by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, the Maine Land Use Planning Commission, the U.S. 3) Avangrid (formerly Central Maine Power, the developer of the NECEC and the major transmission utility in Maine) can’t be trusted. Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Duran said she also contacted the Department of Environmental Protection about the incident and was told they planned to send inspectors to tour the plant Tuesday (January 3). Written by David Hess, Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection. And frequently, those industries collide.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The National Development and Reform Commission’s Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection said in a statement that energy intensity increased 9.5% It could then explore local heating systems, using waste heat from factories and power plants rather than building new boilers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency et al. Instead, the Court has ruled that, though the agency can still regulate carbon emissions, it must do so narrowly and set standards solely based on options available at individual power plant facilities, such as efficiency measures to improve plant-level heat rates.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 6, 2014

The most prominent of the initiatives in the Climate Action Plan aims to use Section 111 of the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and other fossil-fueled power plants. These facilities account for around 40% of all carbon pollution in the United States.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Safari Energy, a PPL company, is a leading developer of solar power for commercial, industrial, and institutional customers nationwide. The Borough of Chambersburg is the largest of 35 municipal electric systems in Pennsylvania and is the only municipal electric system in the commonwealth to own and operate electric generating plants.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Pictured here is smart, solar-powered Brightstorm sensors and equipment installed at a stormwater retention pond. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act. We partnered with Opti because they’re a leader in this technology space, and we both recognize that the millions of stormwater retention ponds in the U.S.—combined

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

The picture under the Biden Administration has been a dramatic reversal, enacting lots of environmental protections and starting to spend tens of billions of dollars. The rule seeks to maximize protections in the western Arctic—some of the most ecologically valuable land in the country. April 22, 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection released $39.6 By setting a federal standard transitioning our heavy-duty trucks, we will see better quality air in communities across the Commonwealth and ensure America’s trucking industry is powered using domestically produced, stable, and reliable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Over the last 12 years, I wrote eight columns on the Koch network’s escapades, including: Its attempt in 2012 to scare consumers about the cost of state renewable energy standards, which require utilities to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels by increasing their use of wind and solar power.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008 requires the state Department of Environmental Protection to provide the Legislature and governor every three years a report on current and projected climate change impacts, and a plan of actions to reduce carbon emissions. Related Articles - Climate: -- Gov.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 24, 2024

Critics may accuse Biden for recycling policies as the $7 billion of solar funding through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Solar for All grant competition was included in Biden’s landmark climate change law, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) which was adopted nearly two years ago in August 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

Annual Symposium To Focus On Electric Power Transformation - Energy, Environment, Policy & Technology Sept. 26-27 In Pittsburgh [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension, Audubon Society Of Western PA Host Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

To Treat Mine Drainage In Schuylkill County [PaEN] -- Western PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation Receives $100,000 Federal Grant To Repair Mine Drainage Treatment System In Tioga County [PaEN] -- Olean Times Herald: A Mine Reclamation Success Story In The PA Wilds - Bennett’s Branch Of Sinnehamoning Creek, Dents Run In Clearfield, Elk Counties (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

-- Bloomberg: EU Climate Chief Wants Renewables To Stop Making Putin ‘Rich’ -- MarketWatch: ‘Want To Stop Making Putin Rich… Renewables Is The Answer’ -- PA Cap-Star: Renewable Energy Project Backlog Hampers Projects, Industry Group Says; 13 GW Of Solar Power Waiting In PA Alone Would Create 45,000 Direct Jobs -- U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

Those measures include-- -- Providing Additional Public Safety & Environmental Protection Standards for Pipeline Construction; -- Reducing Taxpayer Liability For New Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells; -- Plugging The $10.4 Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. Last year, wind generated 10.2 percent , and the 19.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

They included Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short. Koch Engineered Solutions is also bullish on solar, but not on distributed rooftop solar, which the Koch network has been trying to stop.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

House returns to session [Budget Hearings] March 21, 22, 23 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session [Budget Hearings] March 28, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events MONDAY 10:00: House Appropriations Committee budget hearing: Department of Environmental Protection. House Floor. Click Here to watch live.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Lawsuit Filed Challenging Solar Power Facility in California. Chao , No. 1:19-cv-02826 (D.D.C.). The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated U.S. County of Kern , No.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Vitali -- Morton Family Partners With French Valley Conservancy To Donate 340 Acres In Crawford County -- Farm Families Partner With Dept.

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