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PA Midterm Election 2025: What’s at Stake for the Environment?

Pennsylvania’s midterm election races play a critical role in shaping state policy, including environmental regulation and climate action. This post outlines the judicial races and explores what their outcomes could mean for Pennsylvania’s ability to protect the environment. 

How the EPA Eliminated Its Own Ability to Fight Climate Change

On July 29, 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a highly controversial report challenging the well-established scientific consensus on the severity and impacts of global warming. The 151-page document, titled “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate,” aims to accelerate fossil fuel deployment while restricting climate science and undermining climate change mitigation efforts.  

What’s Driving the Price of Renewable Electricity Bills?

Renewable energy is becoming increasingly cheaper to produce, often more so than fossil fuels. Yet with energy prices on the rise in our region, many consumers are left wondering why clean energy is usually still more expensive to consume than its polluting counterpart.

The Case for Restructuring Global Climate Finance

Global climate finance is international aid to help developing countries cope with and adapt to the worst effects of climate change, the most of which they bear the brunt of while doing little to cause. This blog post analyzes the global climate finance landscape, encouraging reform so that climate aid achieves its intended goals. 

Unpacking the 2025 Annual Energy Outlook

The Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) is an independent analysis published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Read more as we analyze this year’s energy trends.

Community Progress on Clean Energy in Pennsylvania

We continue to highlight key renewable energy and climate developments in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania for Earth Month; this week, we spoke with sustainability professionals at Citizens’ Climate Lobby, EarthJustice, and PennEnvironment, three PA-based nonprofits that are helping communities get involved in the fight against climate change and pollution.

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