PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 19-21, Sept. 19-21, Sept.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

In August of 2024, Fords Minister of Energy Stephen Lece announced that the province needed to procure 5000 megawatts of power (enough electricity for 4.5M Unlike Ontarios thumb-on-the-scale approach, Nova Scotia is purchasing its future power directly from a new wind farm. MT in 2020, or 13.5

Government

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

To recap: The unanimous opinion found that nations of the world have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. EPA is renouncing its ability to even regulate greenhouse gases as a threat to human health. Alexander C.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Ohio- $2.80 PA- $3.27 -- Reuters: US Gasoline Prices Set To Climb As Presidents New Tariffs Kick In -- Bloomberg: Oil Posts 7th Weekly Loss On Easing War Risk, Tariff Chaos -- American Gas Association: Presidents Tariffs On Canadian Natural Gas Will Cost US Consumers At Least $1.1

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The office, which is now closed, drew connections between greenhouse gas emissions and health disparities. Some of these grants were bringing solar power to low-income neighborhoods , educating communities about protections from extreme heat and flooding, and providing trucks and locomotives that emit less air pollution.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2025

The glorification of fracking and natural gas as pillars of "dominance" ignores the glaring truth: methane, the primary component of "natural" gas, is a greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than CO2 over 20 years. The Renewable Revolution Is Here Pennsylvania has abundant wind, solar, and geothermal potential.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Here’s what else is making news… Trump Rollbacks EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin last Wednesday proposed to repeal all “greenhouse gas” emissions standards for power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. Is it feasible for solar power to meet most of our electricity demand?

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Investment across the energy spectrum –from oil and gas and renewables to energy storage and transmission – could well increase due to growing power demand, incentives for new supply, and permitting reforms, extending existing trends from the past four years. Gas and renewables often go hand in hand.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

Shapiros FERC Complaint On Power Auction Rules : We Have Been Warning For Over 2 Years Of The Prospect That Parts Of Our Country Could Run Short Of Power -- Post-Gazette: PA Senate Republicans Says Shapiros FERC Complaint Against PJM Rings Hollow -- PA Senate Republicans: Shapiros FERC Complaint On PJM Power Auction Rules Rings Hollow [RGGI} -- ChesterCounty.com: (..)

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 23, 2025

So much of this reliance on methane gas hinges on corporations following through on their data center plans (which seems antithetical to maintaining commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions which many of these companies still hold). But who pays for all this gas infrastructure?

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

By ceding federal authority to regulate greenhouse gases, the Trump administration could unintentionally relinquish regulatory powers to California and other progressive states to carry out their own climate agenda, Carlson told the LA Times. But there may be a silver lining of sorts.

Fossil Fuels

Inhabitant

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Europe is accelerating its use of solar power, in part motivated by Russia’s war in Ukraine. In line with Europe’s pledge to half greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, the EU is installing solar panels and roof tiles just about everywhere.

Solar Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

With the shift to a tax credit premised on technology-neutral framing, the risk is high that heavily polluting power plants—the very polluters this tax credit is meant to drive the shift away from—instead co-opt it for their own. Treasury and the IRS are right to propose clear rules for solar- and wind-powered electricity generation.

Electricity

Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 15, 2021

greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. For both of these reasons, the power sector is central to… Read more → by Felix Mormann (Texas A&M University) Electricity generation produces a quarter of U.S.

Solar Power

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

My last post argued that EPA should immediately repeal the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. It attempted to move away from fossil fuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants.

Clean Air Act

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

Inhabitant

JANUARY 10, 2023

University of Cambridge researchers have developed a new solar-powered system to convert greenhouse gases and plastic waste into sustainable fuels. The new solar-powered reactor could have applications for many industries.

Solar Power

Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

CCS is an example of how oil and gas companies are pretending to care about the climate crisis, and are pushing dangerous distractions that they claim can help address greenhouse gas emissions – while allowing them to keep extracting and burning dirty fossil fuels. It’s called wind and solar power. Because they don’t care.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 20, 2023

Researchers have developed a system that can transform plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable products — using just the energy from the Sun. Read the full story from the University of Cambridge.

Greenhouse

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Specifically, it is important to understand that solar is not being sited in equal quantities on these three types of land, as farmland hosts far more solar projects (33%) than either grassland (6%) or forests (4%). For comparison, nearly 3% of solar power is currently sited in urban areas. [1].

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

for Ontario to phase out polluting gas-powered electricity and produce all of its power using carbon-free sources. Take Action: Tell Ontario to phase out polluting gas power. Here are the measures that would lead Ontario to a fully clean electricity grid: Increase Wind and Solar Power. This is completely doable.

Solar Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. The only way to bridge this gap is through rapid, transformational changes across the global economy in every sector within this decade. Source: UNEP 2022 Emissions Gap Report.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Attendees will gain a better understanding of the many funding opportunities available to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as how they may interact to achieve greater outcomes. After a welcome keynote, each of the 90 – 120 minute sessions will include agency-specific presentations, a panel discussion, and a Q&A session.

Solar Power

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

million in annual energy savings and cut ten thousand metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions. As of the end of November 2024, this program helped participating governments identify over $2.8

Government

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 29, 2023

It’s meant to provide subsidies for clean energy projects in order to help Canada reach its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. Taxpayer money should go to climate solutions – like wind and solar power and energy storage. The CGF, which was set up last year, is a $15 billion independent and arm’s length public fund.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

. -- DEP Offers 10 Point Plan To Improve Permit Reviews; Climate/Energy Work Group Co-Chairs Announced; Work Group Formed To Prevent New Oil & Gas Well Abandonments [PaEN] -- DEP Projects Over $1.5

Solar Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2023

Solar Energy Help Now; Avoid Natural Gas Price Spikes [PaEN] -- Pennsylvania Solar Center, Generation180 Outline Benefits To Schools Switching To Solar Energy - Saving Money, Avoiding Costly Price Spikes [PaEN] NewsClips This Week: -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: PA Lawmaker Launches New Attempt To Allow Community Solar -- MCall: Lehigh University (..)

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The world is trying to get away from burning fossil fuels for energy because it’s a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. A recent study shows that waste incineration causes the most greenhouse gas emissions for each unit of electricity when compared to generation from other fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ontario has a successful track record when it comes to building renewable power. Between 2005 and 2017 Ontario phased-out coal plants, reducing greenhouse gas pollution from our electricity system by 93 per cent. And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2023

This is outrageous, especially given that Ontario successfully phased out coal-fired power plants between 2005 and 2017 and brought down greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector by 93 per cent. Ontario recently announced it would contract new polluting gas plants to generate electricity for the province.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Greater Philadelphia is committed to attaining net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and preparing our communities for the impacts of climate change,” said Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Executive Director Ariella Maron. 27 Released 1.1

Climate Change

Environmental News Bits

MAY 10, 2024

Liu, Purdue University Small-scale solar power, also known as rooftop or distributed solar, has grown considerably in the U.S. by Yihsu Chen, University of California, Santa Cruz and Andrew L. over the past decade.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2023

9 Hearing On Jessop Steel, LLC Air Quality Permit In Washington County [PaEN] -- Hearing Set For Jan. 9 Hearing On Jessop Steel, LLC Air Quality Permit In Washington County [PaEN] -- Hearing Set For Jan.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“Clean, renewable solar energy is so important for Pennsylvania’s air quality and reaching one gigawatt is proof that we are making progress towards Pennsylvania’s Solar Future,” said DEP Interim Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2024

But its current target is too weak, and so is directly responsible for the level of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the province. We think that this misses the point: the Ontario government, through its laws, policies and actions, is actually contributing to climate change.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A solar power field in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. Last week, regulators in the local assembly of Tokyo , the capital of Japan , ruled that all new homes constructed by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar panels to cut emissions. Poor solar uptake. Photo credit: Reuters / Toru Hanai. By Anders Lorenzen.

2025

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Background Information Premier Smith’s decision to place a moratorium on Alberta’s renewable energy sector, while allowing industry players in the oil and gas business to continue to develop greenhouse gas (GHG) producing projects, demonstrates a government bias against wind, solar and geothermal energy production in Alberta.

Renewable Energy