PEC submitted the following letters to the Pennsylvania House and Senate as they debate the future of nuclear generation in Pennsylvania. We believe the state needs to take a comprehensive approach to this issue by pursuing a market-based approach to...
We at PEC recently had the honor of hosting a conference on Deep Decarbonization of the electricity grid in March of this year. Our main, selfish, goal was to learn more about the science, technology, and policy at play in...
To: Members of the Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee Re: April 12, 2016 Meeting of the Committee Dear Senators: On behalf of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC), I am writing to restate our support for the Department of Environmental...
PEC President Davitt Woodwell issued a letter today to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to express support of the state’s efforts to address greenhouse gas emissions, and to submit comments on the Draft 2015 Climate Change Action Plan...
March 15, 2016 To: Members of the Pennsylvania Senate Re: Opposition to Provisions in House Bill 1327 (P.N. 2969) On behalf of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC), I am writing to express our strong opposition to provisions in House...
To: Members of the House Rules Committee From: John Walliser, Pennsylvania Environmental Council Re: Support for Certain Amendments to House Bill 1327 (P.N. 2650) Dear Representative: On behalf of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, I urge you to support two amendments to...
To: Members of the Pennsylvania Senate From: John Walliser, Pennsylvania Environmental Council Re: Opposition to Fiscal Code Amendments Affecting Implementation of the Clean Power Plan Dear Senator: On behalf of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC), I am writing to convey...
John Walliser, Senior Vice President for Legal and Government Affairs, outlines PEC’s recent initiatives in the policy sector, ranging from longwall mining and implementation of the Clean Power Plan to methane emissions. Walliser not only summarizes PEC’s work from the...
Re: Comments of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council on Pennsylvania Implementation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Final Rule for Carbon Pollution Emissions Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources; Electric Generating Units (Clean Power Plan) The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC), in...
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) drafted its initial comments on the federal Clean Power Plan, with its official comments set to be submitted prior to the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Nov. 12, 2015 deadline. John Walliser, PEC Vice President for...
Pittsburgh’s proposed new Climate Action Plan is certainly ambitious. Most broadly, it sets the goal of reducing the city’s greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 percent (from a 2003 baseline) by 2023; by 50 percent by 2030; and by 80 percent by...
Eliminating rules from the Obama administration to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants over the next decade is likely to have little short-term impact on the coal industry and not much environmental impact in Pennsylvania, experts said. “Based on...
WILKES-BARRE — In a region where coal was once king, a German researcher on Thursday shared his perspectives on how the European nation’s continuing transition from coal to renewable energy can apply to Pennsylvania and the United States. Timon Wehnart,...
From the 2017 Philadelphia Environmental Partnership dinner: conversation with Rep. Kate Harper (R-Montgomery), and keynote remarks from Steve Santarsiero, Chief Deputy for Environmental Protection in the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.
Note: this is the first in a series of guest blog posts highlighting PEC’s upcoming conference, Achieving Deep Carbon Reductions: Paths for Pennsylvania’s Energy Future, March 15-16 at the David L. Lawrence Convention center in downtown Pittsburgh. This piece was contributed by...