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Katy McGinty: A Green Gubernatorial candidate for Pennsylvania in 2010?
Last month Pennsylvania DEP Secretary Kathleen McGinty resigned from her post effective July 18th. Katy McGinty, in my mind as well as the minds of other environmental and clean energy advocates here...
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Fracking Fluid Spill in Pennsylvania Contaminates Stream, Killing Fish
A drill site entrance near the spill site in Dimock, Pa., taken this past winter. (Abrahm Lustgarten /ProPublica) by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica Pennsylvania environment officials are racing to...
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Rendell On Green
On Friday, I had the opportunity to listen to Pennsylvania Governor Rendell talk about Pennsylvania’s green initiatives. The governor addressed the bloggers and NGO representatives stationed at the...
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Coskata’s start-up of its semi-commercial flexible ethanol plant in Madison, Pennsylvania, today showcases the world’s first commercially-viable flex ethanol process, according to Coskata officials....
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Creating 1.7 million clean energy jobs to drive economic recovery: The...
CAP Action’s Bracken Hendricks testified Friday before a Senate field hearing on job growth, tax incentives, and small business. I’m reprinting the full testimony below since he lays out the policy...
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Two views on electric utility restructuring in Pennsylvania
From the Central Penn Business Journal, two views on electric utility industry restructuring in Pennsylvania: First from Matt Brouillette: Pennsylvania’s electricity rate caps have kept prices...
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PA State Rep Daryl Metcalfe: Veterans supporting global warming and climate...
Via Keystone Progress, Pennsylvania legislator Daryl Metcalfe (R – Cranberry Twp) responded to in invitation to an energy independence bus tour with a letter of his own, stating that any veterans...
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The big obstacle to passing a new, comprehensive transportation bill is the lack of agreement over a source of financing. The traditional source of funding for federal transportation programs is the...
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Video: The Case Against Natural Gas
On November 30, 2010, The Ecologist published the above video in association with a story titled US natural gas drilling boom linked to pollution and social strife. Please take the time to watch it...
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Would a ‘Pennsylvania Power Authority’ be good for Pennsylvanians?
Also in the Spring 2011 issue of Regulation magazine is Andrew Kleit’s article on a proposed Pennsylvania Power Authority. In the course of explaining why such a state power agency would be a bad...
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Study Finds No Groundwater Issues From Gas Well Fracking
The study referred to in the above headline, “Study finds no groundwater issues from gas well fracking,” is the same PNAS study I mentioned last week under the headline, “Study finds methane in...
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New Jersey and Pennsylvania Solar Renewable Energy Credit Markets Choking to...
The pace of solar installations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania is ironically destroying the incentives that make such installations possible. Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs), existing in states...
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The Energy Jobs Promise
Michelle Bachmann is promising cheap gas and millions of energy jobs. The hyperbole is absurd and sheds light on similar claims coming from the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) and PA politicians in...
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The East Coast Refinery Gap
I see that ConocoPhillips has announced it will idle its 185,000 barrel-per-day Philadelphia area refinery, as a prelude to selling it or closing it permanently. Combined with the recent announcement...
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Measuring the Shale Gas Revolution
New quantification of the national impact of the shale natural gas revolution going on in the United States, from IHS Global Insight, one of the world’s largest economic analysis and forecasting...
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What Consumers Don’t Know About Electricity Deregulation Can Hurt Them
Pennsylvania has one year of experience with deregulation of its electricity markets. Residential, commercial, and industrial customers can now switch to alternative electricity suppliers in a quest...
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SREC Costs to Pennsylvania Homeowners Misleading
The media and airwaves have been full of discussion over the Pennsylvania SREC market, as the state legislature considers amending the current RPS law that created the market a few years ago....
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Natural Gas Extraction Is Destroying Forests in Pennsylvania
A new analysis from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) of two counties in Pennsylvania found that natural gas extraction creates “potentially serious patterns of disturbance on the landscape.”...
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Dennis Farm: American History and Energy Future?
Wow! That was a Frenchman’s reaction to the Dennis Farm. But I am getting ahead of a story that began in 1793. I was invited to a program celebrating the Dennis Farm at the African American Museum in...
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Energy Efficiency Financing Takes a Giant Leap Forward
Last week marked an important milestone in efforts to advance financing of energy efficiency. The Pennsylvania Treasury sold nearly 4,700 loans from the Keystone HELP program for a projected total of...
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