PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Here are 183 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. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug.

Conservation

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

It is a huge step forward,” UCLA Law Professor Kate Mackintosh told me in an email. Mackintosh is the Executive Director of the UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe in The Netherlands where the World Court is also based. It could also have big impacts on refugee law as the number of climate refugees increases.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Here are 204 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. Is Nuclear The Hot New Clean Power Source?

Conservation

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 Ohio- $2.80

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Trump administration is waging a full-on attack on environmental justice (EJ) work in the federal government, including removing public data and information , putting staff on administrative leave , and eliminating programs that directly support communities, all without input from those most impacted.

Government

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

. -- Announced a new registered apprenticeship program with the United Mine Workers of America to train workers to plug oil and gas wells. -- Secured $156 million in federal funds to deliver reliable, affordable, and sustainable solar power to low-income Pennsylvanians and environmental justice communities, which is estimated to benefit more than 14,000 (..)

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 17, 2025

Like the Greenbelt scandal, its an example of the government disguising unrelated favours to its friends as part of a policy response to very real crises. Alinor Rougeot, Climate and Energy senior program manager: Its appalling that the government is exploiting U.S. by killing homegrown renewable energy.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

He’s right: The nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian and an independent government watchdog literally said it couldn’t be done, because Congress can’t use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to revoke EPA waivers. Is it feasible for solar power to meet most of our electricity demand? Democrats last week elected Sen.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2025

The goal is to help local governments, community groups, and others that could benefit from SfA programs plan for what lies ahead. Awardees are also expected to provide technical assistance to help households and others overcome non-financial barriers to advancing solar projects and support workforce development.

2025

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Allan Marks is a partner at Milbank LLP and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law and UCLA School of Law. The energy incentives in the IRA, likely to remain in place, favor more than just renewables like wind and solar power. In short, the rule of law gives investors confidence. power and infrastructure projects.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Davis, DEP, Community Celebrate The Opening Of Federal/State Funded Blacklick Creek Mine Drainage Treatment Plant To Clean Up 25 Miles Of Waterways In Cambria, Indiana Counties [PaEN] -- Indiana Gazette: Blacklick Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Facility Celebrated Near Vintondale -- DEP Now Accepting Applications For First Round Of Federally-Funded (..)

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Here are 164 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. Thank you for your leadership! -- Lt.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Here are 126 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

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 23, 2025

This past Independence Day, he signed the reconciliation bill into law, followed by an executive order which promise devastating impacts for the future of clean and affordable energy. Politics matter here because they set the rules of the game.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

What you saw in Brazil is the leading edge of a strategy that started years ago,” my UCLA Law colleague Alex L. Wang, who studies Chinese environmental governance, told me in an interview. “It’s LA’s Bureau of Street Lighting is slowly swapping out traditional streetlights for solar-powered versions.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 7, 2022

A letter from a bipartisan group of 22 US senators had expressed their “serious concern” about the investigation, and its effect on solar developers and ratepayers. What the federal government will do. Many lawmakers were equally enthusiastic.

Solar Power

Physics World

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The UK government has released a long-term vision for the country’s burgeoning space sector. The National Space Strategy includes several measures that it says will “unleash” the industry’s potential and brings together – for the first time – the UK government’s civil and defence space activities. Solar power.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It also makes offshore wind an important seasonal complement to the region’s abundant and growing solar power capacity. Power everywhere. The federal government issued final approval to a fifth offshore wind project in October and a sixth in November. The US offshore wind map.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Earlier this month, the US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service hosted a public hearing on their recent proposed rules governing implementation of the Section 45Y Clean Electricity Production Credit and the Section 48E Clean Electricity Investment Credit. My testimony is copied below.

Electricity

A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

However, in recent years, their economic competitiveness has improved significantly due to government policies and incentives, as well as technological advances. This has incentivized oil and gas majors such as BP, Equinor and Shell to invest in wind power generation. Wind and solar growth. between 2020 and 2030.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2024

This week, we’ll be at the Court of Appeals for Ontario i n support of seven youth who are suing the Ontario government over its weak climate target and plan. Environmental Defence and West Coast Environmental Law, represented by West Coast lawyers Anna Johnson and Andrew Gage, are one of 11 groups of intervenors. They’re right.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 16, 2017

By Michael Hervey, 3L Staff Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Lots of environmentalists have difficulty balancing our need to provide efficient energy with reducing the effects of climate change. Solar power seems promising, but access to solar power as an energy source can be.

Solar Power

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

The pipeline owner – Plains Midstream Canada ULC – later faced three charges under provincial law. I had to figure out how to bridge the silos that existed in our society – between the renewable energy sector, climate organizations, government policy-makers, project financers, utilities, labour, engineers – the list goes on.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2023

How would you feel if I told you that the Ontario government is going to blow another $4 billion on another environmentally destructive and indefensible act? Ontario is poised to unnecessarily spend over $4 billion on polluting gas plants that the federal government is in the process of phasing out. How do we know? MW/business day.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

The milking shed for her 80 dairy cows that can yield 1,100 litres of milk per day, along with the barn that houses 21,000 chickens at a time, will soon sit alongside a photovoltaic solar plant with 85 panels. Even the new church in town, which is under construction, will have solar panels,” May says. MW to 791.32

Solar Power

Law Columbia

AUGUST 1, 2024

In addition, the CPRG program had tight deadlines, and some eligible states, tribes, and local governments may not have been able to apply for CPRG implementation funding due to timing and capacity constraints. Established by the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law , this competitive grant program is set to award $2.5

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

By Kathy Cook, League of Women Voters of PA On May 25, 2021, a joint committee hearing on utility scale solar development was hosted by Pennsylvania’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Local Government Committees. Some counties in the PA Wilds have active proposals for solar fields going on old strip mine lands.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Most prominently, because the approach is changing from rewarding specific technologies to rewarding anything that meets the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions threshold of “clean”—hence the “tech-neutral” label—exactly how the government goes about determining whether or not something is actually eligible will be enormously important.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JUNE 11, 2024

These ordinances were adopted despite a state law that prohibits local governments from placing restrictions on wind or solar facilities unless those restrictions: (a) protect health or safety; (b) do not significantly increase the cost or decrease efficiency; or (c) allow for an alternative system of comparable cost and efficiency.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

AUGUST 7, 2024

Many of these local restrictions, however, may become moot after November 29, 2024, when a new state law that reforms the siting process for large-scale wind, solar, and battery storage projects goes into effect. But significant questions remain as to how the law will be implemented.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

PFAS Hazardous Site Cleanup Investigation In Centre County [PaEN] -- EPA: New Drinking Water Health Advisories Set For 4 PFAS Chemicals; $1 Billion In Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Available For Cleanup [PaEN] -- Courier Times: EPA Finds No Safe Level For 2 Toxic PFAS Chemicals Found In Many U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

Natural Gas

Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 6, 2023

Accepting the ongoing hegemonic great power rivalry between the governments of the United States and China, this act is particularly significant for renewable energy because Camel Group, headquartered in Xiangyang City, is among the largest vehicle battery manufacturers in the world and the largest heavy commercial vehicle battery manufacturer.

Biotechnology

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2024

Industrial Project In Northampton County [PaEN] -- DEP Will Hold May 2 Hearing On Stormwater Permit For Maiden Creek Warehouse Project In Berks County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Draft Strategy For Prioritizing Development Of Total Maximum Daily Load Watershed Plans From 2024-2032 [PaEN] -- The Energy Age Blog: Development Of Range Resources-Appalachia (..)

Solar Power

Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Enshrine our GHG reduction targets, and interim targets, into law, using a carbon budgeting process to ensure 2030 and 2050 targets are met. Restoring the powers of the Environment Commissioner of Ontario. Completely electrifying government fleets by 2030. Transition the electricity supply. Protect water and green spaces.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2022

Click Here to watch live. -- Senate Budget Hearings: PA’s Experience With New Pipeline Construction Shows State Laws Not Strong Enough To Prevent Environmental Damage, Protect Public Safety [PaEN] -- The Epoch Times: Republicans Urge Gov. Hearing Room 1, North Office Building. What’s Your Community Doing?

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2024

Here are 93 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

Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2024

Evolution of law in India Environmental rights gained traction in India soon after independence in 1947. The Government also argued that the Order created obstacles to meeting India’s commitments under the Paris Agreement.

Climate Change