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WeConservePA Honors Cynthia Carrow With 2025 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award

PA Environment Daily

Cynthia also oversees WPCs sustainability efforts, which have included energy efficiency, alternative energy generation, carbon emissions assessments, and transitions to electric vehicles. In 2006, Ms. As a member of the senior leadership team, she has consistently provided strategic direction for the Conservancy.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers.

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PJM Interconnection Forecasts Adequate Electric Generation For Typical Summer Demands; Preparing Demand Response Resources To Reduce Power Use In Extreme Scenarios

PA Environment Daily

On May 9, the PJM Interconnection announced its forecasts show sufficient generation for typical peak demand this summer but is preparing to call on contracted demand response resources to reduce electricity use under more extreme scenarios featuring record demand. PJMs record summer peak load was set at 165,563 MW in 2006.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging the cap-and-trade program had argued that it was not authorized by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and that the requirement to purchase emissions allowances constituted a tax that required approval by a two-thirds majority of the State legislature.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels.

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Snopes' Alex Kasprak Makes 17 False And Misleading Claims About Apocalypse Never and Misrepresents the Best-available Science

Environmental Progress

The central drama of Apocalypse Never is how climate activists and renewables advocates have diverted World Bank funding from cheap and reliable sources of power like hydro-electric dams, which would benefit the book’s main heroine, Bernadette, a small farmer in the Congo. Nuclear energy is that solution, Shellenberger has long advocated.”