Solar means business in America: Here’s what that looks like in Pennsylvania
By Scott Elias, guest editorial, PENN Live Patriot-News, Feb. 4, 2022
Americans know that solar means business, creates jobs, helps the environment, and can help families, farms, and businesses save money — that’s why poll after poll finds that an …
Repairing the Damage from Orphan Wells and Abandoned Mine Lands
Ohio River Valley Inst. blog post, April 14, 2021, by
For more than 150 years, Appalachia has provided the cheap energy that has powered the nation’s industrial growth and helped construct the middle class. But …
Pennsylvania PULSE (Project to Utilize Light and Solar Energy)
March 22, 2021, Press Release, Gov. Wolf office.
Governor Tom Wolf announced today a major clean energy initiative that will produce nearly 50 percent of state government’s electricity through seven new solar energy arrays totaling 191-megawatts to be built around …
Clean Energy Employed 94,000 in PA Before Pandemic, 50K More than Fossil Fuels
E2 Report, September 23, 2020.
Pittsburgh (September 23, 2020) – Led by strong growth in solar energy, grid modernization, and energy efficiency, Pennsylvania added more than 3,000 net new clean energy jobs in 2019, continuing a years-long trend that made …
As a ‘green stimulus’, Pakistan sets virus-idled to work planting trees
By Rina Saeed Khan | Thomson Reuters Foundation, 28 April 2020.
The effort shows how funds to help families during the pandemic could also help prepare for the next big threat: climate change
When construction worker Abdul Rahman lost his …