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PA Solar Center and Capital Good Fund announce a partnership to finance nearly 70 solar projects statewide worth up to $40 million, helping small businesses and nonprofits go solar with no money down.
NRDC examines the energy affordability debate in Pennsylvania, focusing on the strain data center power demands are placing on the grid and ratepayers.
At a Pennsylvania Senate budget hearing, PUC Chair DeFrank testified that the PJM capacity market was not designed for data center demand and called for a comprehensive, diversified state energy plan.
FirstEnergy subsidiary plans $950 million in transmission and distribution upgrades across Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Twenty-eight contributors to the Federal Judicial Center's Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence have signed an open letter condemning the deletion of its climate science chapter as a political attack on judicial independence. The chapter was removed in February after 27 Republican state attorneys general pressured the center to retract it, leaving federal judges without a peer-reviewed resource on climate science at a time when climate litigation is rapidly expanding in U.S. courts. Subscription may be required.