A Talk with Climatologist Michael Mann
PennEnvironment interviewed scientist Michael Mann to learn more about how Pennsylvania can tackle global warming.
View ArticleLegislature Attacks Clean Power Plan
Yesterday the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted to undermine the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan – a reasonable and common-sense proposal to protect future generations...
View ArticleNew Report: Solar Capacity in Pennsylvania Grew by 16% in 2013
Today, PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center released Lighting the Way: The Top Ten States that Helped Drive America’s Solar Boom in 2013, highlighting strong solar growth across the nation...
View ArticleLighting the Way
Solar energy is on the rise. Over the course of the last decade, the amount of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in the United States has increased more than 120-fold, from 97 megawatts in 2003 to more...
View ArticleNew Report: Global warming pollution from PA power plants equivalent to Chile
As international leaders prepare for the United Nations Climate Summit next week in New York, a new study shows Pennsylvania’s coal-fired power plants dump as much carbon pollution into the atmosphere...
View ArticlePennsylvania State Senate Passes Climate Action Roadblock
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), PennEnvironment, ConservationPA, Sierra Club, PennFuture, Clean Air Council and Moms Clean Air Force today slammed Pennsylvania State Senators for passing a...
View ArticlePennsylvania Solar Businesses Ready to Roll with Clean Power
Philadelphia, PA – Days after the Pennsylvania Senate passed legislation creating a roadblock to climate action (HB 2354), dozens of Pennsylvania solar businesses endorsed U.S. Environmental Protection...
View ArticleNearly 400,000 comments from Pennsylvanians in support of cleaning up power...
Philadelphia, PA-- As the public comment period on the Clean Power Plan closes today, PennEnvironment delivered tens of thousands of comments, resolutions of support from more than a dozen communities,...
View ArticleNew Report: Wind Energy can Cut Carbon Pollution by More Than 3.6 Million Cars
Wind power is on track to cut as much carbon pollution in Pennsylvania as 4 coal-fired power plants, or 3,689,000 cars produce in a year by 2030, according to a new analysis by the PennEnvironment...
View ArticleMore Wind, Less Warming
Wind power is on track to cut as much carbon pollution in Pennsylvania as 4 coal-fired power plants, or 3,689,000 cars produce in a year by 2030, according to a new analysis by the PennEnvironment...
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