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In 2004, then-Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS) Act into law, which required the state’s utilities and electricity suppliers to purchase a minimum amount of electricity from renewable or...

The Allegheny Group Sierra Club’s Huplits Grant Committee awarded about $140,000 in grants between July 2023 and January 2024. The funds for the grants originate from the Huplits Foundation Trust, a family charitable trust established in 1990. The...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the allocation of $6.3 billion in industrial decarbonization grants funded by the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a significant step toward transforming...

We're hiring two Field Organizers to engage volunteers and partners through online and offline tactics in support of 100% clean energy, climate justice, and other movement and coalition priorities in Pennsylvania. One will be based in Western...

The North Central Pennsylvania Group was interested in having a film festival or showing films as a fundraiser. In the summer of 2023, Dr. David Heineman from Bloomsburg University released his full-length documentary NEPADOC, a non-verbal...

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Today, Governor Josh Shapiro announced the Pennsylvania Reliable Energy Sustainability Standard (PRESS), his proposal to update the 2004 Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards (AEPS). Forward looking at the time of its adoption,...

Welcome to the online-only Pennsylvania Chapter newsletter, the Sylvanian! Please read our March 2024 issue!

The Pennsylvania Chapter lost another friend and colleague on Valentine’s Day. Don Miles passed away on 2/14 at the age of 75, after having chosen to end his battle with cancer on his own terms in December. His sons, Michael and Stephen, shared that...

On January 7, 2024, our Chapter lost its Chair, Chris Shepherd, in a tragic encounter with police. It’s still hard for me to understand what happened, because it should never have happened. In an interview with the local CBS affiliate, Chris’s...

As part of the Charleston Township Environmental Advisory Council’s (EAC)Community Outreach and Education program, in November 2023 we invited Michele Wellard of the Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center (the Center), a rescue, rehabilitation, and...