Tailored for those with beginning and intermediate levels of solar law knowledge, this year’s event will explore timely topics including large-scale solar development, PJM’s role in utility-scale solar and the wholesale electricity market, solar leasing, local ordinances, stormwater impacts, tax implications, and property values—plus, for the first time, an ethics session based on participant feedback.
Who is this for?
-- Attorneys
-- Energy regulators
-- Energy policymakers
-- Local governments
What will you learn?
-- Overview of large-scale solar development
-- PJM’s role in utility-scale solar and the wholesale electricity market
--Solar leasing
-- Ordinances related to the development of large-scale solar
-- Local impacts such as stormwater, tax implications, and property values
-- Ethics of solar leasing
Six hours of substantive Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits are available to attendees.
Click Here to register and for more information.
PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards:
-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 17 [PaEN]
-- DEP Posted 91 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 17 PA Bulletin [PaEN]
Related Articles This Week:
-- Environmental Defense Fund Blog: Another Study Identifies Health Risks During Unconventional Oil & Gas Production Even For Those Living Within 1,000 Feet Or More Of Wells [PaEN]
-- DEP Issues RFP For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Services On Time & Materials Basis As Needed [PaEN]
-- DEP Issues Air Quality Plan Approval For Expansion Of Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County [PaEN]
-- US House Republicans Eliminate Funding For The Federal Methane Emissions Reduction Program, Including PA's MERP Grant Program To Plug Conventional Oil & Gas Wells [PaEN]
-- Rise Of The Machines: Senate, House Members Express Concern That Demand For Power To Run Computers Is Impacting The Price And Availability Of Electricity For ‘Ordinary People’ [PaEN]
-- Gov. Shapiro: Lightning Plan Tax Credit Bill, Community Energy Pass PA House [PaEN]
-- PUC Sets June Hearings On Proposed 11.4% Natural Gas Rate Increase By Columbia Gas [PaEN]
-- PennLive: PPL Customers Will See Another Rate Increase June 1 - 16% [Due To Regional Electric Market Issues]
-- US EIA: US Natural Gas Prices Double Last Year Due To LNG Exports, Demand Driving Electricity Prices Higher This Summer [PaEN]
-- North American Electric Reliability Corp.: Record Load Growth From Data Centers, High Temperatures Expected To Strain Electric Grid This Summer [PaEN]
-- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Summer Electricity Assessment Sees Adequate Generating Resources To Meet Normal Operating Conditions; Higher Natural Gas Prices Driving Electricity Prices Higher [PaEN]
-- Better Path Coalition Hosts May 21 Webinar On Regional Water Use Policy And Siting Data Center Facilities [PaEN]
NewsClips:
-- The Allegheny Front - Julie Grant: PA Senate Bill Would Cut Drilling Impact Fees For Communities That Restrict Fracking
-- Farm And Dairy: PA Bill Could Pull Funding From Communities That Restrict Oil And Gas Activity
-- Olean Times Herald: EPA Hears Concerns About 2nd Proposed Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County
-- PA Capital-Star: Is Congress Trampling On State Laws Protecting Property Rights Against Pipelines
-- Marcellus Drilling News: Truck Hauling Shale Gas Wastewater Overturns Loses 2,000 Gallons In Stream, Driver Not Injured [PDF of Article]
-- PublicSource.org - Jake Vasilias: Peering Into A Shale Gas Driller’s Pledge Of ‘Radical Transparency’ [CNX Resources]
-- FracTracker Alliance: CNX Not-So-Radical Transparency Provides Incomplete Information, Heavily Downplays Dangers Of Shale Gas Development
-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA House Approves Shapiro’s Energy Plan Tax Credit Bill
-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: NRG Buys 5 PA Gas Power Plants To Meet ‘Supercycle’ Of Demand By Data Centers; Refitted To Run As Baseload Plants
-- Vistra To Acquire 2 Natural Gas Power Plants In PA, Other States
-- Bloomberg: Vistra Buys Power Plants From Lotus Infrastructure Partners In PA, Other States To Power A.I. Data Centers
-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: PA Regional Power Grid Operator Sees Manageable Summer Peak Load, But A Slight Risk Of ‘Running Short’
-- PennLive: PPL Customers Will See Another Rate Increase June 1 - 16% [Due To Regional Electric Market Issues]
-- Financial Times: Constellation Energy, Other Companies Abandon Almost Half the Projects In $5 Billion Texas Program To Fund Natural Gas Power Plants Due To Costs, Supply Chain Delays [Sen. Yaw Wants A Program Like This In PA]
-- WHYY: President Wants To End LIHEAP, 300,000 PA Households Could Struggle To Pay Heating Bills
-- TribLive: New Kensington’s Re:Build To Boost US Production Capacity For Renewable Hydrogen In Westmoreland County
-- TribLive Guest Essay: Hydrogen Future Begins In Western PA - If We Seize It - By ConservAmerica
-- Reuters: US, Europe Drive Global Power Plant Emissions Higher So Far In 2025
[Posted: May 17, 2025] PA Environment Digest
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