Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. But like most Cambodians, he is reluctant to criticize his government and its policies. “I Construction began in 2014.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch online. Read more here. Voters To Be Asked To Approve Open Space Tax; South Whitehall Twp.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The leadoff articles in the series included a commentary from Lisa Heinzerling , a Georgetown University environmental law professor, who crafted the victorious brief in the 2007 Massachusetts v. EPA decision where the Supreme Court said the EPA had the authority to regulate global warming gases.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Efficiency is also indispensable because it can greatly reduce the amount of new clean energy infrastructure, including power plants and transmission lines, that would be needed to decarbonize the economy. In 2007 , when US carbon emissions peaked, renewables—including hydropower—generated only 8 percent of US electricity.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. The petitioners, joined by intervenor States and local governments, appealed this determination, and in Massachusetts v. 497 (2007), the Supreme Court reversed EPA’s denial. Last year, local governments in the U.S. The brief emphasized the threat that U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

The 2007-8 financial crisis was caused by a housing bubble worth an estimated $250-500 billion. The report also indicates that under current government policies, fossil fuel production will rise in the coming years, contrary to the Paris Agreement. In 2022 , the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP) alone had $21.72

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. One columnist from the Wall Street Journal asserted just before the Glasgow climate summit that it was time to ask “ some big boy questions ” about our rush to renewable energy. No Ordinary Markets.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

And there at Geisinger, I am the founding director of the Environmental Health Institute, which we founded in 2007. We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007. Fully fund and staff government agencies that protect public health. And over the last 15 years, I've spent regular time in Danville.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. Here are a few other examples: The French government issued earlier this year the first large national green bond , worth no less than seven billion euros with a 22-year maturity.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. The state has already made significant progress toward the first goal as a result of the 2002 Clean Smokestacks Act and 2007 adoption of a renewable energy portfolio standard (REPS) for major energy producers.

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Edouard Stenger

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Renewables are also more resilient, cleaner and more popular among voters. In the US, electricity generation from coal went from 50% in 2007 to 15% now. In such conditions, how could the coal industry survive? According to Associated Press , six of the top seven U.S.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The High Cost of Renewables House Democrats propose spending hundreds of billions of public and ratepayer money on renewable energy, new transmission lines, energy efficiency, mass transit, electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, and advanced nuclear energy. I am honored to address the Committee.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Last Thursday, December 15, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) seeking comments on proposed changes to its regulations governing the siting of interstate electric transmission lines. transportation and buildings) which will further increase the need for renewable generation.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Congress working to pass spending deal before government funding expires Dec. Midterm elections could lead to new state level climate and energy legislation. Countries also produced a framework for an international carbon market, which would allow corporations to buy carbon offsets from governments. Executive Branch.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. Subsidies and mandates for renewables result in higher electricity prices and the net transfer of wealth from lower to upper income citizens.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

House passes stop-gap federal government funding measure, fate in the Senate remains unclear. Appropriations: House Democrats approved a stop-gap spending measure to keep the government open after fiscal year ends Sept. In this issue: Congress. Executive Branch. Judge orders U.S. Federal Register opportunities. The bill includes $28.6

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

In addition, the agency expects to propose an updated rule governing the venting and flaring of methane pollution from onshore oil and gas leases in October but did not estimate when it would finish work on that regulation. The Biden administration has made it a priority to rapidly scale up the country’s offshore wind energy production.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Jeff Sessions, has already prepared a memorandum that provides the legal justifications for sending such employees to Guantanamo Bay as a threat to our national energy security. Vanity Fair (May, 2007). [11]. Thankfully the Trump Administration will pull back the U.S. Thankfully the Trump Administration will pull back the U.S.

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