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Amid pressure to cut carbon emissions, the debate over the energy sector's future often marks a sharp division between Democrats and Republicans running for office in Pennsylvania. The state is a top natural gas producer.
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Pennsylvania's Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program distributes federal funding to state residents to help cover winter heating bills.
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Patrick Cicero was confirmed by the state Senate in June.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was in the Pittsburgh area Tuesday to tout jobs in the growing clean energy sector. She visited BCI Steel, which recently reopened a former Bethlehem Steel plant in Leetsdale.
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The Allegheny Conference report charts a middle-of-the-road path that rejects doing nothing to clean up the energy sector but falls short of the goals set by the global climate conference.
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Environmental group joins Plum Borough Council in fight against second gas wastewater injection wellA local environmental group is joining a legal battle between Plum Council and its zoning board to prevent a second fracking waste injection site in the borough.
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Switching to solar energy is expensive and confusing. Allegheny County homeowners can now join a co-op to learn more about switching and get group rates on installation.
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A new report by the Environmental Defense Fund found there are more abandoned oil and gas wells than previously thought in the United States. Researchers found 8,840 wells are documented in Pennsylvania, but suspect there are hundreds of thousands more.
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Pittsburgh is piloting “smart loading zones,” which use pole-mounted video cameras, machine learning, a short-term fee structure and an app to help drivers get in and out of loading zones more efficiently.
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Many Downtown workers have not gone back to the office yet. But energy use in office buildings has stayed close to pre-pandemic levels.