Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 27, 2024
Announcing recently that the world broke a record by generating 30 percent of all electricity from renewable sources in 2023, the British think tank Ember said the data proves we are in a “new era” of energy in which a permanent decline in fossil fuels is “inevitable.” percent of the globe’s electricity in 2015, solar now produces 5.5
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Shortly thereafter, the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and trucks under Massachusetts v. EPA , and Congress finalized the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 , requiring increasing fuel economy standards.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. Electric utilities, meanwhile, gave her $44,750.
Legal Planet
JUNE 30, 2022
Today, the Supreme Court decided its most important environmental case since 2007. Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion leaves EPA other options to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. We didn’t dodge the bullet. It’s more than a flesh wound but it didn’t hit any vital organs. New York v.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 14, 2023
The rule, which also applies to new gas plants, would avoid as much as 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042, the EPA calculated , the equivalent of the annual emissions of 137 million passenger vehicles—about half of the cars in the country. percent of US electricity and utility-scale solar generated 3.4
Greenbuilding Law
JANUARY 15, 2023
It is not lost on students of optics that this proposed light bulb rule was issued 142 years to the day that Thomas Edison received notice of the granting of his patent for the incandescent lamp that paved the way for the universal use of electric light; the most important invention in history. tCO2e per capita in North Dakota (. in Hawaii (.
A Greener Life
APRIL 1, 2022
Options for enhancing the ocean’s capacity to take in carbon include restoring ecosystems like kelp forests, adding minerals such as lime and using electricity to boost alkalinity. Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated.
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