The most sweeping of the rules are the CO2 limits on coal and new natural gas plants. They require carbon capture, improved efficiency or co-firing with “low-emitting” fuels at these plants.
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The state permit will allow PennEnergy Resources to extract 1.5 million gallons of water a day from Big Sewickley Creek. Biologists are worried this will harm the threatened redbelly dace.
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Save Carbon County, a grassroots environmental organization, sued a cryptocurrency plant and Gov. Josh Shapiro last week.
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The Department of Energy is awarding $90 million to a company that has promised to build what would be the largest solar project in the state on a former coal mine in central Pennsylvania.
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Tenaska, a Nebraska-based company, needs to lease land for injection wells and underground space to store carbon for what it calls its Tri-State CCS Hub in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
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Can Gov. Josh Shapiro satisfy environmentalists and the GOP on climate change? With a proposed carbon cap-and-trade program, he’s trying.
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The state Department of Environmental Protection found the plant violated clean air laws 19 times since beginning operations two years ago — and fined it over $10 million.
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Energy agency announces $475M in funding for clean energy projects on mine land sites, including Pa.The Biden administration has announced up to $475 million in federal funding for clean energy projects on current or former mine land sites. The U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday that the projects will be in five states. They include the political battleground states of Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada.
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The EPA is seeking a court order to enter an unclaimed parcel of land on a Superfund site in northwestern Pennsylvania that once housed a ceramics factory.
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Three members of the group Pennsylvania Action on Climate were arrested and cited for trespassing after a demonstration in front of Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office Tuesday.
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About 5 million tons of greenhouse gasses were emitted within Pittsburgh in 2022 — roughly the same amount as in 2013. At this rate, the city will fall short of its goal to reduce emissions by 50% by 2030.