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Katie Blume, CVPA’s Political and Legislative Director, thought the ordinance seemed reasonable.
“The ability for a municipality to outright ban something isn’t there. But with the ordinance, as I read it, it’s very similar to a model ordinance that was put out by PennFuture.”
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The Solar-Ready Warehouse bill is one of the action items on our Energy Affordability Agenda - check out & endorse via this link:
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PennFuture helped write House Bill 1260, the Solar-Ready Warehouse Bill, which makes it easier for businesses to go solar.
This bill recently passed the state House. Now, we need the state Senate to act on this!
Pennsylvania is losing to clean energy investments to other states like Ohio, New Jersey, & even Texas.
Only 4% of Pennsylvania’s energy comes from clean energy sources.
Solar on warehouses can fix this!
Solar is the cheapest and fastest energy to build today. As electricity demand in PA rises faster than supply, prices go up. Adding solar to warehouses quickly increases low-cost supply— helping bring down energy prices and lower everyone’s bills.
The report includes an interactive map to view the suitable warehouse square footage, potential annual solar generation in Gigawatt-hours, and the potential number of households powered by county.
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Suitable Pennsylvania warehouses would generate around 9,391 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year. That's enough electricity to power 924,421 households annually.
Check out this new report, Pennsylvania's Warehouse Rooftop Solar Potential, from our friends at @keystoneresearch.bsky.social!
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Senior Campaigns Director @annieregan.bsky.social & Senior Director for Energy & Climate @robaltenburg.bsky.social spoke at New PA Project’s event on data centers & our Energy Affordability Plan for PA💸☀️
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Our legal team is a force for clean water!
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GREAT NEWS! The PA Environmental Quality Board announced it was withdrawing the rulemaking that would have weakened spill reporting into our waterways! Over 800 members from across the state spoke up in opposition to the rulemaking!
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Let us know in the comments, have you noticed this increase in heavy rainfall? 🌧️
‼️Take Action Now! Urge your State Rep to support PA Communities in creating green stormwater solutions.
We need your help!
💧Two important stormwater bills are on the move - HB 990 & 991. These bills allow more PA communities to create funding to manage stormwater runoff, a growing problem as we experience more heavy rainfall than in years past. secure.everyaction.com/CpJ1Oixh80aV...
We’ll examine the tariff and discuss what advocates, policymakers, and elected officials can learn from individual utility rate cases currently being filed across the state.
See you there!
Join us this Fri., April 17th for a lunchtime webinar exploring the PA PUC’s Large Load Model Tariff—a specialized electricity pricing structure designed for customers with high energy demand, such as major industrial facilities & data centers.
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What can you do?
Send a thank you County Council & County Executive Sara Innamorato with our link below:
Add your story of why air quality is important to you!
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What did this win get Allegheny County Residents?
✅All committee members committed to attending all meetings & removing inactive members
✅Added more voices representing environmental justice areas & air pollution experts to improve advice on air quality issues
What did PennFuture do to help fix this?
We worked with our Breathe Collaborative partners to ensure that Allegheny County Council knew of this dysfunction as well as the importance of a well-experienced & functional committee.
How was it dysfunctional?
✅40% of meetings in 2025 did not have enough people to hold an official meeting
✅No meetings for at least 2 years had full attendance
✅Members were not removed after breaking the attendance requirement set by law
✅Using anti-science rhetoric
What is the Air Pollution Control Advisory Committee?
Usually MeetS Every 2 Months to Advise Allegheny County Health Department & Allegheny County Board of Health on:
✅Proposed air quality regulations
✅Technical issues
✅Management of air pollution
✅Clean Air Fund projects
🧵GOOD NEWS: Allegheny County Has a New, Experienced Air Advisory Committee After Years of Dysfunction
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DATA CENTERS:
PennFuture’s President & CEO Patrick McDonnell gave an interview to Allegheny Front Radio on our support for a statewide data center moratorium.
Check it out here:
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#datacenter #datacenters #Pennsylvania #datacentermoratorium
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New gas plants should NOT jump ahead in line before the thousands of renewable energy projects that give us relief to our high electric bills & diversify our energy grid.
On March 20th, PennFuture & partners filed a formal opposition to this- a protest- to say that this violates existing FERC orders and should not be approved.
Our regional grid operator, PJM, asked FERC to approve their plan that would allow new gas plants to jump ahead in the interconnection line- known as the Expedited Interconnection Track (EIT).
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is a U.S. government agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity.
🧵Fossil fuel interests are trying to jump in front of renewable energy projects - PennFuture’s legal team is fighting back!