Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore Pennsylvania's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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GHG Targets + Governance

Just Transition + Equity

Industry

Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

Electricity

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

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Pennsylvania's Solar Future Plan

Outlines strategies for expanding both grid-scale and rooftop solar, identifies required investments, and highlights economic and environmental benefits. It aims to guide policy development, support job growth, and accelerate the transition to clean, emissions-free energy.

Pennsylvania’s Grid-Scale Solar Siting Policy, developed by a multi-agency working group, provides guiding principles for responsibly locating large-scale solar projects. The policy supports solar energy as a tool for clean energy growth, economic development, and climate action, while emphasizing reuse of disturbed lands, protection of agricultural and natural resources, and respect for local planning. It aims to balance energy goals with environmental stewardship and community interests.

Grid-Scale Solar Siting Policy

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Lightning Plan

The Governor’s energy plan will provide funding for new projects through an updated Pennsylvania Economic Development for a Growing Economy (EDGE) manufacturing tax credit, streamline energy project approvals by creating a state energy siting board known as the RESET Board, encourage communities to lower utility bills through shared energy resources, and increase rebates for energy-efficient appliances to help reduce household energy costs. Additionally, PACER would establish a cap-and-invest program to set Pennsylvania’s carbon limit and invest in reducing electricity costs.

Pennsylvania Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report 2024

DEP is required by the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act to compile an annual inventory of GHGs emitted in Pennsylvania. The inventory must establish GHG emission trends and contributions of major sectors, including, but not limited to the transportation, electricity generation, industrial, commercial, mineral and natural resources, production of alternative fuel, agricultural, and domestic sectors.

In 2021, (the most recent data available for the 2024 Inventory) Pennsylvania was responsible for approximately 258 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) being emitted into the atmosphere. Production and consumption of energy accounted for nearly 90 percent of these emissions. Pennsylvania’s forestry and land use sector sequestered over 23 MMTCO2e in 2021.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PA Turnpike) released a Request for Proposals to construct a series of solar generation facilities in its right of way areas. The Solar Right-of-Way Project will not only offset the PA Turnpike’s electrical consumption but also contribute surplus energy to the electrical distribution system. Under the agreement’s proposed terms, the PA Turnpike would purchase the generated power, at a predetermined rate, from the vendor for 20 years and retain the associated Solar Alternative Energy Credits (SAECs) to provide additional revenue. This project also helps reduce the PA Turnpike’s environmental footprint.