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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Act 129, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Program Implementation

On June 11, 2015, the Commission adopted additional incremental reductions in consumption for a Phase III of the Act 129 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Program. Phase III began on June 1, 2016, and will end on May 31, 2021. Phase III requires a cumulative average savings of approximately 3.7% (range of 2.6% to 5.0%) from energy efficiency and also includes a DR requirement with average annual savings of 425 MW.

Act 129 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Program Phase IV; Doc. No. M-2020-3015228
Via its June 18, 2020 Implementation Order, the Commission adopted additional incremental reductions in consumption for a Phase IV of the Act 129 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Program.  Phase IV began on June 1, 2021 and will end on May 31, 2026. In its June 2020 Implementation Order, the Commission concluded that it was unnecessary to continue requiring preliminary annual reports in addition to the final annual reports.  Therefore, to streamline the reporting process, the preliminary annual report was eliminated, while maintaining the semiannual and final annual reporting process.  In addition, in the interest of providing the final annual reports to the public in a much timelier fashion, the Commission required the EDCs to submit the final annual reports by September 30 of each year.

Executive Order 2023-17

Establishes the Commonwealth Workforce Transformation Program (CWTP), which is responsible for coordinating the distribution of IIJA and IRA monies available for workforce development and on the-job training (OJT) via a grant program distributed through the various state agencies that will receive such federal funding. The Program permits Eligible Organizations to apply for grants of up to forty thousand dollars ($40,000) per each new employee.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) created the PennEnviroScreen framework which provides an annually updated snapshot of undue environmental burden on vulnerable communities. This model combines Pollution Burden and Population Characteristics data in order to identify Environmental Justice (EJ) Areas in accordance with the EJ Policy, which will increase public participation in the permitting process of proposed facilities.

PennEnviroScreen

Pennsylvania Methane Overflight Study Final Report

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), in collaboration with Carbon
Mapper, Inc. (Carbon Mapper) and the U.S. Climate Alliance, conducted a research study to
better understand the capabilities of airborne methane detection technology and to gather data on
methane emission sources and rates. More specifically, this study intended to evaluate the
effectiveness of Carbon Mapper's airborne technology as a methane emission data measurement
tool to detect methane-emitting sources and measure their corresponding emission rates. This 2021 research study helped state regulators identify 145 large sources of emissions and reduce or eliminate 12 of them, mitigating over 2.2 million metric tons of CO2e per year and serving as a proof of concept for future methane detection and mitigation activities in the state.

Invests up to $400 million of federal funding in on-the-job workforce training over next five years. Under the leadership of Department of Labor and Industry and the Governor’s Office of Critical Investments, the Shapiro Administration will work with companies, contractors and unions who are working on projects funded by Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) or the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to reimburse costs related to on-the-job training for new workers.