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by Christen Smith, The Center Square  | May 21, 2021 01:00 PM Print this article State environmental officials released new carbon cap and trade modeling this week as Pennsylvania’s scheduled entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative draws nearer. The Department of Environmental Protection provided the latest data to the Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee this week during the first of a handful of scheduled meetings with public advisory boards invested i...

Gov. Tom Wolf said this year that the state is working on joining a Zero Emission Vehicle plan with a set timetable for the transition.

Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com Extreme weather events such as flash floods, intense heat waves, and rising temperatures,  all could become more frequent and severe in Pennsylvania by mid-century if current trends continue, according to a recent report. “No one can expect Pennsylvanians’ lives to stay as they are now,” Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection  Secretary Patrick McDonnell said. The Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Assessment is a report the DEP produces ever...

UpdatedFri, May 7, 2021 at 4:49 pm ET Replies(12) (Shutterstock) HARRISBURG, PA — Pennsylvanias average temperature will be 5.9 degrees higher by 2050, according to a new study by state officials. The Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Assessment, produced by the state Department of Environmental Protection, as well as the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources recently released the plan and Gov. Tom Wolf expressed concerns over the findings. "On our current path, the Pennsylvania our chi...

Pennsylvania State Capital Bureau Pennsylvania faces serious threats from climate change, including heavier rainfalls, damaging floods and warmer temperatures, if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced, according to a new report released by Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration on Wednesday.   The Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Assessment 2021 predicts that by the middle of this century (2041 to 2070), the statewide average annual temperature will be nearly 6 degrees hotter than between 1971 ...

The average number of days over 90 degrees will increase to 37 in some areas and be as high as 60 in other parts of the state by 2050, according to the report. By comparison, the state averaged about five days annually above over 90 degrees from 1971 to 2000.  The average number of days hotter than 95 degrees will increase from one day to 10 days.  Precipitation is expected to increase by 8%, primarily in the form of more frequent heavy and extreme rainstorms. The average annual precipitation...

4 days ago “I’d say the big difference between the last report and this one is we’ve actually experienced the impact of some of that weather now,” said Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell, referring to storms in 2018 that caused severe flash flooding across the state. The report uses a worst-case scenario climate model, with no assumed solutions, to make its projections. Increases are compared to a baseline period measured from 1971 to 2000. McDonnell said...

StateImpact Pennsylvania Old Forge Road in Chanceford Township, York County is seen here on July 21, 2020-- nearly two years after flash floods carried away part of the road. Pennsylvania could be nearly six degrees hotter on average by 2050, while seeing more frequent heatwaves and intense rain, according to the state’s latest The report estimates the state’s average temperature will continue to rise up to 5.9 degrees higher on average by midcentury. That’s half a degree hotter than e...

According to Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Assessment 2021, PA’s average temperature will be 5.9° F higher by midcentury, with significant consequences for the health and safety of Pennsylvanians.

Pennsylvania projected to warm 5.9 degrees by 2050, state climate report says Frank Kummer, The Philadelphia Inquirer © Elizabeth Robertson/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS File: Flooding at 82nd Street and Lindbergh Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia in August 2020. A new climate assessment by Pennsylvania says average annual temperatures will rise by rise 5.9 degrees by 2050, along with more flooding. The Wolf administration issued a report Wednesday projecting that the average ...