PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

18 Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Provides Updates On Wind Power, Local Green Energy Efforts -- PA Wilds Center: PA Wilds Makers Market On Oct. 22 In Washington County -- Natural Resources Conservation Service-PA Pennsylvania State Technical Committee Meeting Oct. 17 -- Williamsport Sun: Oct. 22 , 1:00 p.m. Bartolotta, Sen.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2025

Of Health, Penn State Project ECHO Host Feb. Of Health, Penn State Project ECHO Host Feb. Of Health, Penn State Project ECHO Host Feb.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers And Cryptocurrency Mining Energy Use Needs A Clear Disadvantage - By Karen Elias, Climate Reality [ PDF of Article ] -- Axios: Recently Upgraded Twin Ridges Wind Power Facility In Somerset County Could Help With A.I. Data Center Hype -- Williamsport Sun Guest Essay: A.I. Race - Can Data Centres Ever Truly Be Green?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

In Allegheny County Violated Its Own Zoning Ordinance To Allow Shale Gas Well Pad, Pipeline To Be Built In A Residential Area -- Environmental Hearing Board Denies Request To End Appeal Of Catalyst Energy, Inc. Tioga County [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Commonwealth Court Rules Elizabeth Twp.,

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

15 [PaEN] -- PJM Interconnection Winter Outlook: Adequate Power Supplies Available Under Normal Conditions; PJM Delays Next Power Auction After Prices Spike [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA: No One Is Using $2.6 Related Articles: -- SolarBank's First 2 Community Solar Projects In PA: 13.8-Megawatt

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

To Adopt More Stringent Rules For Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells In Westmoreland County -- Observer-Reporter: EQT Shale Gas Driller Sues Morgan Twp., To Adopt More Stringent Rules For Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells In Westmoreland County -- Observer-Reporter: EQT Shale Gas Driller Sues Morgan Twp.,

Conservation

Legal Planet

JUNE 19, 2025

Texas is #1 for wind power, #2 (and rising) for solar, and #3 for EVs. Solar and wind power are now cheaper sources of electricity than coal or natural gas. Fortunately, there are other arguments that may better appeal to them. We need to develop our clean energy industry to compete with China.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

Of Justice Agreement -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept. Of Justice Agreement -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

electricity generation for a whole month March 2025 thanks to record-high solar and wind power, according to data released by energy think tank Ember. Electricity! For the first time, fossil fuels provided less than half of U.S. Sammy Roth moderates a killer panel on where the climate movement is going during Trump 2.0

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Trump vociferously favors fossil fuels and has criticized renewables, especially wind power and electric vehicles. But renewables have powerful corporate champions and trade associations with support across the aisle in Washington, D.C. Gas and renewables often go hand in hand.

2025

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

16 [PaEN] -- TribLive Guest Essay: Plugging Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners Creates Jobs And A Healthier Planet - By Deb Haaland, Secretary, US Dept. Families Left With Unanswered Questions After Natural Gas Leak Complaints From 70 Homes -- WPXI: Small Natural Gas Leaks Found In More Than 30 Homes In Cranberry Twp.,

Conservation

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

A new Energy Department report warns of a 100% increase in blackouts if the US closes coal and gas plants. The report “lays the statistical groundwork to continue its efforts to keep coal and natural gas plants open beyond their scheduled shutdown dates,” Axios says. A fifth of U.S.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

24 RiverWatch Video Report -- Centre Daily Times: Follow These Centre County Recycling Tips In 2025 -- Lock Haven Express: Penn State, DCNR Forest Health Briefing, Forest Landowners Conference March 6-8 In State College -- Jan. Ohio- $3.01 Ohio- $3.01 Ohio- $3.01

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

PJMs effort to continue our addiction to 19th century sources of energy that are dirty, dangerous, unreliable and expensive, instead of using safer, more reliable and more cost-effective 21st-century technologies such as solar and wind power and battery storage is appalling. Photos: Keystone and Conemaugh power plants.)

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

PA- $3.25 -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs - 18 - Same As Last Week -- Guest Essay: Paying The Price For Natural Gas And A.I. Data Centers -- Guest Essay: Paying The Price For Natural Gas And A.I. Ohio- $3.00 Data Center Energy Needs -- NorthcentralPA.com: A.I.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

and data center issues from last week you may have missed-- Articles-- -- Guest Essay: Paying The Price For Natural Gas And A.I. Data Center- Fueled Natural Gas Gold Rush Bubbling In Northcentral PA -- Altoona Mirror: Pennsylvania Poised For A.I. Here are Articles and NewsClips on A.I.

Nuclear Power

Yale E360

MAY 4, 2021

Eversource Energy, New England’s largest utility, markets itself as a company that strives for carbon neutrality and invests in offshore wind power.

Wind Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 20, 2024

But just in case there was any doubt, UCS crunched the numbers to compare the different types of school buses from gasoline and diesel-powered option, to natural gas, electric and yes – even propane. This is great news for our kids, our communities and our climate. Why not 100 percent?

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas. EIA is projecting that natural gas prices will remain low.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

I sometimes ask students to guess what state produces the most wind power. It’s not as if the state’s extensive use of wind power is just a historical fluke, either. The state will soon get more power from renewables than natural gas. They’re always shocked to find out the right answer: Texas.

Wind Power

Legal Planet

JULY 15, 2024

Levelized cost of electricity for onshore wind is $0.034/kWh. Both are below the levelized cost of new natural gas or coal generation. PV is 4.7% of generation but growing quickly, with a levelized cost of $0.05/kWh kWh (a bit less for utility-scale solar). Download as PDF

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Higher prices for oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity are all pushing up inflation across the economy, dampening consumer demand, canceling out wage gains, and compounding the burdens facing working families and the poor as they seek to recover from the pandemic. In the U.S.,

Natural Gas

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 4, 2024

Electricity from renewable sources dropped even as Illinois and surrounding Midwest states pushed to replace fossil fuels, such as coal and natural gas, with wind and solar power.

Wind Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

Complicating matters further, shipments of liquified natural gas (LNG) into the region must be purchased in global markets, where fuel prices can be impacted by events in other parts of the world. The expensive way to maintain grid reliability: deliveries of liquefied natural gas into Boston Harbor.

2018

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

non-hydropower renewable sources, including solar and wind, grows from 13% in 2021 to 17% in 2023. We forecast that the share of generation from natural gas will fall from 37% in 2021 to 34% by 2023 and the coal share will decline from 23% to 22%. The amount of solar power generating capacity operated by the U.S.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. It estimated that we would need an additional 843 MW of solar and an additional 4,545 MW of wind capacity (along with a basket of other sources) to ensure the province’s energy needs are met. .

Solar Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

The same scenario has played out with the power plants that use fossil fuels, predominantly methane (“natural”) gas, delivered by pipelines. The electric power system is trapped by gas-dependent power plants that cannot obtain gas when it needs it to keep the lights on.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Hydropower generation across California and the American West has declined in this extremely dry year, meaning that electricity providers will lean more heavily on natural gas, solar, and wind power. In recent years, systems began capturing energy from that biogas and using it to produce electricity or natural gas.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy. The Netherlands plans to connect more than 20 GW of wind power before 2030. 20 GW before 2030. The Dutch are also trialling a cluster of floating solar panels named ‘Oceans of Energy’.

Clean Energy

Law and Environment

MAY 4, 2023

SMR requires steam, heat, and pressure to convert methane (in natural gas) to hydrogen and carbon monoxide. We’re going to need a lot of steel to build structures, including those supporting clean energy, such as wind turbines, solar facilities, and associated transmission and other infrastructure.

Carbon Monoxide

A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

This has incentivized oil and gas majors such as BP, Equinor and Shell to invest in wind power generation. BP and Total are also leading the way in terms of upcoming solar power capacity.”. Wind and solar growth. The growing role of renewable energy poses a major threat to fossil fuel-based power generation.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In discussing the late December winter storm that nearly led to rolling blackouts in the MidAtlantic region of 65 million people, Yaw suggested that increasing amounts of renewable energy were to blame for the near-miss and condemned neighboring states for adopting policies that “emphasize solar and wind power over natural gas.”

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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. But it’s not too late to make the investments now. .

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Alberta: Speak Up For a SAFE Climate: Take Action Here How Climate Action Makes Life More Affordable Renewable energy, including solar and wind power, is much cheaper and less polluting than burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil and coal.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) visits a hybrid power plant where “green” hydrogen is made using wind power and fed into the gas grid. If Germany is to stop buying gas from Russia in the long term, it will need alternatives. A wind farm owned by General Electric around 50km south of Berlin, Germany.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The failure of gas-burning power plants to provide energy in cold weather is back in the news. In the latest development, gas power plant owners are now facing performance penalties levied by the grid operator PJM and they are attacking PJM for enforcing the rules designed to ensure reliability.

2014

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

. -- April 4 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues [PaEN] -- 6th Oil/Natural Gas Shock: ‘Drillers Continue To Return Cash To Shareholders… Rather Than Boost Production’ [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Ask Me About How University Of Pittsburgh Will Get To Net Zero (..)

Natural Gas