Why Pennsylvania Should Feel Good about the Clean Power Plan
Most Mondays feel like Mondays. Last Monday, the thirty-first Monday of the warmest year on record , felt like history. So it was. As a record heat wave...
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New Pennsylvania Coalition: It's Time for Clean Energy's Star Turn
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy reiterated yesterday that the agency's Clean Power Plan (CPP), the first nationwide standards to reduce carbon pollution from...
Overreach as "Oversight": The Case of Pennsylvania House Bill 965
Question : When is legislative "oversight" really legislative overreach - an attempt to give the Pennsylvania General Assembly absolute power over changes to...
Severance Tax on Natural Gas Can Help Fund Clean Energy Investment in Pennsylvania - But Must Not Prolong Reliance on Fossil Fuels
In March, my colleague Jackson Morris wrote on Switchboard about several forward-looking clean energy measures in Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's proposed...
Sneezing and Wheezing in Pennsylvania: Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Asthma and Allergies
It's often said that the long struggle to clean up the United States' air began in Donora, Pennsylvania in 1948. That fall, an atmospheric temperature "...