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Editorial: Pa. energy use
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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2008-10-10 |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer editorialized applauding the state legislature's passage of the PennEnvironment-backed energy efficiency and conservation bill. | |
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WCU efforts applauded
- West Chester Daily Local
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2008-09-26 |
| To see geothermal energy and other clean energy resources significantly expand, leadership from Congress is critical. Specifically, we need to be increasing the amount of government subsidies going to these clean energy solutions. | |
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Going green may bring job boom in state
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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2008-09-10 |
| Pennsylvania could gain about 86,000 jobs by investing in clean energy technologies, according to a report released Tuesday by a coalition of labor and environmental groups. | |
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Editorial: Forget more oil drilling - it's a temporary fix
- Main Line Times
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2008-07-31 |
| We are more than 30 years overdue in stemming our national addiction to oil. In just one generation, our autos have gone from gas-guzzling sedans to economic imports and back to super-sized SUVs. | |
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Motorists slam brakes on gas prices
- Harrisburg Patriot-News
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2008-07-27 |
| The price of gas is driving people in the midstate to change their habits. Midstate residents said they aren't driving and traveling as much. People have also changed how they drive to reduce gas consumption. More people are turning to public transportation. | |
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Get ready to start your engines -- with biofuels
- Bucks County Courier Times
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2008-07-24 |
| Under legislation Gov. Ed Rendell signed into law this month, there’s a new requirement that every gallon of gasoline and diesel fuel must contain a percentage of ethanol and biodiesel. | |
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Seeing green in the future
- Bucks County Courier Times
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2008-07-07 |
| At 110,000 square feet and three stories, the hulking business center on Township Line Road in Lower Makefield is probably not what environmentalists dreamed this country's “green†movement would look like. | |
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Illogical drilling
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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2008-07-01 |
| Hats off to the Post-Gazette for seeing through the push by President Bush and John McCain to promote offshore oil drilling ("Feeding an Addiction" June 19). | |
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Energy bills demand state Senate action
- Pottstown Mercury
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2008-06-30 |
| With the start of summer upon us, the heat is on for state legislators to wrap up lots of unfinished business before they adopt a budget - hopefully - and go into recess at the start of July. | |
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Midstate mixed on environment, oil drilling
- Harrisburg Patriot-News
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2008-06-23 |
| Some say high price of gasoline justifies opening protected lands; others point to need to conserve | |
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Crucial Legislation
- Sunbury Daily Item
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2008-06-17 |
| As our nation finds itself in the midst of an energy and environmental crisis, Sen. Arlen Specter is thus far refusing to be part of the solution. | |
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Talking about Pa. and clean energy
- Hanover Evening Sun
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2008-06-05 |
| Editor: We all know that in order to fight global warming, we need to use less energy and advance clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. And legislation (House Bill 2200 and Special Session House Bill 1) being debated in Harrisburg would make tremendous strides in both areas. | |
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Renew incentives
- Scranton Times-Tribune
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2008-06-01 |
| Editor: The clean energy industries that are helping to bring more wind and solar power online are critical to solving global warming and Pennsylvania’s energy problems. They’re also creating good jobs that help the economy and our environment. | |
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Murphy: Senate must act
- Bucks County Courier Times
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2008-05-28 |
| Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy, D-8, tried to light a fire Tuesday under the U.S. Senate by calling for quick passage of a bill providing $18 billion in green energy-related tax incentives over 10 years. | |
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Pa. can reduce pollution
- York Daily Record
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2008-05-27 |
| With the Energy Information Administration projecting a 46 percent increase in U.S. global warming pollution over the next 20 years, it is clear that a change needs to be made, especially in Pennsylvania. | |
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State Senate considers energy efficiency bill H.B. 2200
- West Chester Daily Local
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2008-04-22 |
| With energy conservation measures seen as the fastest way to reduce greenhouse gasses, legislators in the state House of Representatives passed an energy efficiency bill in February whose goal is to cut projected energy use by 2.5 percent in the next five years. | |
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Energy efficiency will benefit PA's economy
- Delaware County Daily Times
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2008-04-20 |
| Enacting aggressive energy-efficiency legislation will be a first step towards making Pennsylvania a national leader in cutting energy use — for the benefit of the state’s environment and our economy. | |
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Energy efficiency: An idea whose time has come
- Pottstown Mercury
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2008-04-12 |
| We’ve known for years that the cleanest and cheapest type of energy is the energy that is never produced in the first place. In other words, if we cut our energy demand, we reap the environmental and economic benefits of power plants not having to produce as much electricity, and new power plants not being necessary. | |
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New $3B ethanol pipeline could run through midstate
- Central Penn Business Journal
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2008-02-20 |
| Two companies yesterday proposed building a 1,700-mile pipeline to carry ethanol from the Midwest through Central Pennsylvania to New York... Corn-based ethanol should only be a stepping stone to cellulosic ethanol, said Nathan Willcox, energy and clear-air advocate at Philadelphia-based PennEnvironment. | |
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Drillers Eye Huge Appalachian Gas Field
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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2008-02-03 |
| More than a mile beneath an area of Appalachia covering parts of four states lies a mostly untapped reservoir of natural gas that could swell U.S. reserves. Geologists and energy companies have known for decades about the gas in the Marcellus Shale, but only recently have figured out a possible , though expensive , way to extract it from the thick black rock about 6,000 feet underground. | |
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Word nears on 'liquid-coal' plant
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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2008-01-14 |
| By January 31, the U.S. Department of Energy is expected to decide whether to lend $100 million for the construction of the nation's first liquid coal plant in Schuylkill County. | |
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Paying less at the pump, more at the dealership
- Bucks County Courier Times
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2007-12-28 |
| The Energy Independence and Security Act requires automakers to increase fuel economy for cars and light trucks by 40 percent by 2020. That's the first federally mandated higher fuel economy standard in 32 years. The legislation also requires production of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, by 2022. | |
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Feds drive home fuel economy bill
- Bucks County Courier Times
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2007-12-16 |
| For the first time in more than 30 years a major increase in federal fuel efficiency standards for cars and small trucks could be signed into law before the end of the month. But environmentalists aren't entirely pleased. | |
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New energy bill merits support
- Erie Times
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2007-12-12 |
| It is disappointing that U.S. Rep. Phil English, of Erie, R-3rd Dist., voted against the Energy Independence and Security Act. | |
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Editorial: Rejecting Kyoto
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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2007-12-04 |
| ...Americans concerned about high gasoline prices must hope that more can be accomplished to reduce our dependence on foreign oil with energy legislation trying to fight its way through Congress. A big step was taken late Friday when House Democrats negotiated an agreement on perhaps the most important element of a new energy bill - an update of rules requiring automakers to make more fuel-efficient vehicles. | |
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