In response, EEN President and CEO Rev. Dr. Jessica Moerman released the following statement:
“When energy bills soar, many struggling families turn to their local church for help. Canceling the Solar for All program would take away the opportunity for 900,000 low-income households to find financial relief and greater self-sufficiency through home-grown solar energy.
“As evangelicals, we’re called to care for the “least of these” and to be good stewards of both God’s creation and our resources.
“Breaking this promise is not only short-sighted—it would keep nearly a million American families trapped in an impossible choice each month of whether to pay for food, buy medicine, or keep the lights on.”
The York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network is a ministry whose mission is to inspire, equip, educate, and mobilize evangelical Christians to love God and others by rediscovering and reclaiming the Biblical mandate to care for creation and working toward a stable climate and a healthy, pollution-free world.
Related Articles This Week:
— Guest Essay: Paying The Price For Natural Gas And A.I. Data Centers – By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN]
— Utility Dive Guest Essay: We At PJM Need Realistic Solutions, Not Politics To Take On Energy Challenges – By Aftab Khan, PJM Executive Vice President Of Operations, Planning and Security [PaEN]
— Bitfarms Announces Partnership To Develop A.I. Data Center At Panther Creek Waste Coal-Fired Power Plant In Carbon County [PaEN]
— Range Resources Files Appeal Of The Dismissal Of Its Zoning Hearing Board Challenge To Cecil Township’s Ordinance Requiring A 2,500 Foot Setback For Shale Gas Wells [PaEN]
— FracTracker Alliance: Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Released 17.9 Billion Pounds Of Air Pollution Since It Began Operation, During 80 Malfunctions, 43 Violation Episodes [PaEN]
— PA Senate Republican Policy Committee To Hold Aug. 11 Hearing On A.I. Data Center Development In Lackawanna County [PaEN]
— PA House Environmental Committee To Hold Aug. 11 Hearing On How PA Should Subsidize The Remediation Of Waste Coal Piles [PaEN]
— House Members To Introduce Bipartisan Legislation To Advance Geothermal Energy Development [PaEN]
— Evangelical Environmental Network: EPA Threatens To Cancel Solar For All Program That Would Lower Energy Bills For Families [PaEN]
— PA Interfaith Power & Light Hosts Aug. 14 Webinar On The New Deadline For Taking Advantage Of Federal Solar Energy Tax Credits [PaEN]
NewsClips:
— Scranton Times: State Senate To Hold A.I. Data Center Hearing At Valley View High School
— MCall: As Electric Bills Rise Due To A.I. Data Center Demand, PJM Electricity Auction, What Lehigh Valley Utilities Say To Expect [PPL – Last 2 PJM Auctions Have Increased Monthly Bills $20 With No Benefit To Customers] [PDF of Article]
— The Allegheny Front – Kara Holsopple: What’s Behind Higher Electricity Prices? The Regional Grid Explained
— Chesapeake Bay Journal: The Price Of A.I. – How Is A.I. Impacting Energy Production And Prices?
— Scranton Times: Proposed State Senate Bill To Fast Track Data Centers, Limit Local Zoning [Senate Bill 939] [PDF of Article]
— Williamsport Sun Guest Essay: A.I. Data Centers And Cryptocurrency Mining Energy Use Needs A Clear Disadvantage – By Karen Elias, Climate Reality [PDF of Article]
— Erie Times: National Fuel Gas Increases Gas Rates 12.2%; How Much More Erie-Area Homes Will Pay
— Utility Dive: Independent Power Producers Hit Back At Utilities [Like PPL] That Want To Build Their Own Generation Due To PJM Price Surge
— PA Capital-Star: Beaver County Group Calls On DEP For More Timely Reports On Shell Petrochemical Plant Air Pollution
— Post-Gazette/Inside Climate News – Kiley Bense: New Report Shows How Health Outcomes Improved After 2016 Shenango Coke [Coal] Works Closure In Allegheny County
— WESA – Rachel McDevitt: EPA Move To Rollback Oil & Gas Methane, Climate Pollution Rules Will Hurt People Around Pittsburgh, Advocates Say
— Inquirer Editorial: President’s EPA Rollbacks Jeopardize Our Warming Planet And Its Wary People
[Posted: August 7, 2025] PA Environment Digest