PA Senate to Consider Program to Cut Power Plant Pollution
Pennsylvania State Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa today circulated a co-sponsorship memo indicating that he will soon introduce legislation to reduce carbon...
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Pennsylvania's Gas Power Problem, Part II: Cost and Risk
To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to make dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Where the power sector is concerned, that means using e...
Pennsylvania's Gas Power Problem, Part 1: The Build-Out
For most of the last decade, the biggest energy story in Pennsylvania has been fracking—the use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling to extract sha...
PA Has a Climate Action Plan—Now PA Needs Climate Action
Last week, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf joined the U.S. Climate Alliance and his Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) unveiled a new Climate Action...
Pennsylvania’s First Nuclear Subsidy Bill, Explained
Legislators in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives have introduced House Bill 11 , a much-anticipated bill to add nuclear power to the state’s...
Nuclear Power and Pennsylvania's Competition Act
Although it’s less well-known than the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act of 2004 (AEPS), Pennsylvania’s 1996 Electricity Generation Customer Choice...