PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On December 11, DEP told the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee the Shapiro Administration supports expansion of the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards to increase renewable energy generation, authorization of a community solar program and expanding energy storage in the Commonwealth.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

DEP inspection report ] No production and waste generation report was submitted to DEP since 2006 and no well integrity report had ever been submitted to DEP. No production and waste generation report was submitted to DEP since 2006 and no well integrity report had ever been submitted to DEP.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Eventually, in 1986, Catalyst folded but the blueprint had been set and by 2006 there were more than 1400 incubators of all kinds in North America, up from only a dozen in 1980. These centres cover everything from compound semiconductors, renewable energy and high-value manufacturing to satellites, energy systems and digital technology.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

PJM’s all-time, one-day highest power use was recorded in the summer of 2006 at 165,563 MW. PJM projects a non-diversified peak demand for electricity this summer at approximately 156,000 MW and has performed reliability studies at loads nearing 163,000 MW. One megawatt can power about 800 homes. Read more here.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

— Unleashing energy efficiency’s HUGE potential. I have been advocating this since the writing of my Master’s thesis at Audencia all the way back to 2006. Any energy use entails carbon emissions, some more than others. So the space freed by fewer cars in our cities could actually be used for planting trees.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

The disruption happened in under a decade, with China’s global share of PV production surging from 14 percent in 2006 to 60 percent by 2013. For over 20 years, his Swiss non-profit, funded at least in part by the Swiss government and the photovoltaic industry, has collected data on the environmental impact of renewable energies.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Phasing out of Fossil Fuels and Scaling Up Renewable Energy 6. including the FTC Green Guides, soon to be updated, the SEC proposed rule on climate risk disclosure , and for those companies with sales in the EU, the 2006 directive concerning misleading and comparative advertising. Announcing a Net Zero Pledge 2.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

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. State Air Resources Board , No. S241948 (Cal.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And a dormant Commerce Clause-based challenge to a 2006 California statute that prompted a transition from carbon-based to renewable energy sources similarly failed in court. But not all states have fared as well in defending against dormant Commerce Clause-based challenges to their environmental and energy laws.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

PJMs record summer peak load was set at 165,563 MW in 2006. The National Weather Service predicts hotter-than-normal summer conditions, especially in the Atlantic seaboard states. Last year, PJMs summer peak was about 152,700 MW, and 147,000 MW in 2023. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

More recently, much of the growth in renewable diesel has been from converted oil refineries, which already have the facilities for hydrogen treatment as well the logistics to receive trains or tanker ships of incoming oil (fossil or vegetable) and ship out finished diesel fuel.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

He joined regional leadership in 1999, became executive VP Production in 2006, and President of Exxon Production and VP of Exxon Corp in 2008. During his tenure as the head of Imperial, Kruger was critical of government environmental policy , such as the clean fuel standard, and he had little interest in branching out into renewable energy.

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments.

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Vermont Law

MAY 11, 2020

The largest growing source of energy generation in the world is currently renewable energy. [1]. An EIA report from January, 2019 forecasts that renewable energy will continue to increase at a sharp rate as coal-fired and nuclear generation decreases each year. [2]. 18, 2019), [link]. [3]. last visited on Sep.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

So what needs to change: Cities of the future will need to rely less on fossil fuels and invest in renewable energies. The transport sector alone is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions from energy use globally, with up to 40% of this coming from urban areas (Coalition for Urban Transition, 2019). link] (19)30215-3.pdf.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Between 1996 and 2006, United Nations family planning spending declined 50 percent. It’d be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of cheap, clean, and abundant energy,” said the Malthusian advocate of renewable energy, Amory Lovins, in a 1970 interview, “because of what we would do with it.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2024

Declarations could also lead to money for long-term, proactive mitigation, such as renewable energy storage and microgrids to withstand utility blackouts, and retrofitting of homes and buildings to be more energy efficient and weatherized. Even better, of course, would be a serious drive toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

They said, depending on how the proceeds of the final regulations are invested, it will not have a negative impact on jobs, but will be a job creator and energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives will reduce energy costs. In addition, last July, Sen.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

For example, the IPCC notes that France had 4,000 fewer deaths than anticipated from a heat wave in 2006 thanks to improved health care, an early-warning system and greater public consciousness in response to a deadly heat wave three years earlier. Like taxes on food, taxes on energy are regressive.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2025

Only about 3% to 5% comes from cheaper, home-grown clean energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydropower. About 95% of large-scale projects stuck in PJMs queue are solar, wind, energy storage, or other renewable energy sources. billion in energy costs since 2006.

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The Energy Law

MAY 26, 2023

715 (2006), which was issued 17 years ago but was not uniformly applied due to Justice Kennedy’s use of the “significant nexus” test in his concurrence. Brief Overview of “Waters of the United States” The Supreme Court previously considered the scope of “waters of the United States” under the CWA in 2006 in Rapanos. 715, 739 (2006). [3]

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2].

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A Greener Life

MARCH 20, 2025

The sector is already losing the first two markets, Gore says, with the vast majority of new electricity generation installed worldwide last year made up of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles gaining market share. Every night on the TV news is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation, he says.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The backstory: The question of which streams and wetlands are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act has been in limbo for the past decade and a half, since the Supreme Court issued a muddled decision in the 2006 case Rapanos v. The Public Land Renewable Energy Development Act ( H.R. United States. 3326 ), from Rep.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Rose asked Tillerson open-ended questions on a range of subjects, including climate change and national energy policy. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

When the Obama administration attempted to implement the Clean Power Plan , it said that the new standards would fight climate change, create tens of thousands of jobs in renewable energy and avoid up to 3,600 premature deaths from soot and smog.

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

Overall, the Department of Energy receives $46.1 billion, including a $260 million increase for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The Supreme Court failed to reach a consensus in the 2006 Rapanos v. This is in addition to $1.55 billion that the Office of Science received through the Inflation Reduction Act.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation. The Biden administration has made it a priority to rapidly scale up the country’s offshore wind energy production.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Note that this was a wind project announced before Trump bought the land in 2006 for the course, which was completed in 2018. If we are in an energy emergency, why would Trumpian policy seek to shut down some forms of energy development? Many accounts (g., Lets just say that this is not how the grid works. The Trump 2.0

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