Law Columbia
JULY 21, 2025
In New York, a lack of adequate transmission and distribution infrastructure, as well as the high cost of upgrading that infrastructure to allow new wind and solar projects to be connected, have been a major bottleneck to renewable energy deployment. From 2002 to 2016 demand for electricity grew by less than 2% in total.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
The Inflation Reduction Act is directing $20B toward climate-resilient agriculture Reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions through policies that drive renewable energy and clean transportation has well known benefits.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 3, 2022
percent for systems installed in 2002 to 20.1 And there’s a lot more solar activity underway and on its way—especially with the new federal Inflation Reduction Act’s 10-year extension of the tax credits that have been so powerful for driving renewable energy, including solar. PV modules keep getting more efficient.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 6, 2023
However, it’s a disappointment to the initiative’s proponents and to a larger group of environmental advocates who seek to promote California’s quick transition from reliance on heavily-polluting and climate-damaging fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
This is a little different than other similar sounding policies like Renewable Energy Standards, which can create some confusion. But while a Renewable Energy Standard treats all sources of qualifying renewable energy equally, the LCFS has a more complicated approach, based on lifecycle analysis.
Greenbuilding Law
OCTOBER 8, 2023
That substantive list is substantially the same as the original version of TRACI released by EPA in August 2002. The TRACI compilation of environmental effects was the basis of the US Green Building Council’s LEED green building rating program.
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
The possibilities for hydrogen in a clean energy transition? See his 2002 book, two decades before the spate of recent national hydrogen plans. Connected and renewable-energy-powered ‘third industrial revolution’ economies. The frequently discussed fear that digital technologies will make millions of workers obsolete?
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