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  • NEW DATA: PA ranks 49th in U.S. for renewable energy growth

    NEW DATA: PA ranks 49th in U.S. for renewable energy growth

    PHILADELPHIA – Pennsylvania ranks 49th in the nation for percentage growth in total solar, wind and geothermal generation over the past decade, according to new data released on Wednesday by PennEnvironment. The State of Renewable Energy 2025 documents the growth of six key clean energy technologies across the United States over the past decade and ranks states accordingly for solar power, wind power, battery storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging stations.

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  • Trump Orders Eddystone Power Plant to Stay Open for the Summer

    Trump Orders Eddystone Power Plant to Stay Open for the Summer

    The U.S. Department of Energy has ordered another power plant, this time an oil and gas plant in Delaware County, to keep its turbines running through the hottest summer months as a precaution against electric shortfalls in the 13-state mid-Atlantic grid.

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  • Commentary: PA not doing enough to manage abandoned oil and gas wells

    Commentary: PA not doing enough to manage abandoned oil and gas wells

    Pennsylvania is the nation’s second-largest natural gas producer, yet the commonwealth does not provide sufficient resources to its Department of Environmental Protection to properly regulate this industry. Gas wells are routinely abandoned, many drillers fail to report their drilling activity as required by law and drilling wastewater is illegally dumped on roadways. In the upcoming state budget, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania’s General Assembly must provide additional staffing for the DEP’s Oil and Gas Program to address these problems.

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  • Upper Darby schools to get $2.4M, three other Delco districts get solar grants

    Upper Darby schools to get $2.4M, three other Delco districts get solar grants

    Pennsylvania has awarded grants totaling $22.5 million to 73 schools across the state to help pay for solar energy installations under thew Solar for Schools Program, the Commonwealth Financing Authority announced Tuesday. The Upper Darby School District will receive about $2.4 million for six schools and three other Delaware County districts – Rose Tree-Media, William Penn and Haverford – also were awarded grants.

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  • May, 2025 Newsletter

    May, 2025 Newsletter

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  • Trump may defund MACH-2 Hydrogen Hub

    Trump may defund MACH-2 Hydrogen Hub

    The Trump Energy Department has indicated that it plans to cut funding for four hydrogen hub projects in blue states while keeping three in red states. In Pennsylvania, that means axing the MACH-2 hub along the Delaware River that was supposed to be fueled by clean off-shore wind farms. Those projects are also being axed while the three remaining hubs will be fueled by fossil fuels.

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  • Urgent: Trump Admin. is cutting habitat destruction ban in Endangered Species Act

    Urgent: Trump Admin. is cutting habitat destruction ban in Endangered Species Act

    Public comment is urgently needed on the Trump Administration’s proposed rule change in the Endangered Species Act to eliminate habitat destruction as a covered harm.

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  • Op-Ed: PA DEP needs more staff to deal with urgent environmental problems

    Op-Ed: PA DEP needs more staff to deal with urgent environmental problems

    While the workload of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has increased dramatically over the past two decades, its staff has shrunk significantly to the point where the department can no longer adequately enforce Pennsylvania’s environmental laws and regulations.

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  • April, 2025 Newsletter

    April, 2025 Newsletter

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  • Glenn ‘Hurricane’ Schwartz to be keynote speaker at 4th Annual Sustainability Conference

    Glenn ‘Hurricane’ Schwartz to be keynote speaker at 4th Annual Sustainability Conference

    Former Channel 10 weatherman Glen “Hurricane” Schwartz will be the keynote speaker at the 4th Annual Delaware County Sustainability Conference to be held from June 9 to June 14 this year. It will be a hybrid in-person and online conference.

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  • House environment committee approves bill to regulate ‘cumulative pollution’

    House environment committee approves bill to regulate ‘cumulative pollution’

    The Pennsylvania House Environmental and Natural Resources Protection Committee voted HB 109 out of committee on a party line vote of 14 Democrats to12 Republicans April 7. The bill was the subject of a packed hearing in Chester in March.

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  • New documentary traces plastic pollution back to Pennsylvania and Louisiana

    New documentary traces plastic pollution back to Pennsylvania and Louisiana

    The documentary tells the stories of two states with a major stake in the plastics economy: Louisiana and Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania segment focuses on Beaver County’s Shell ethane cracker plant, a massive facility for manufacturing plastics that began operations in the fall of 2022.

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