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Ask a Scientist: Two Dozen States Can Meet 100 Percent of Electricity Demand with Renewables by 2035

Union of Concerned Scientists

All told, they represent 56 percent of the US population, generate 62 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, and are responsible for 43 percent of the country’s annual carbon emissions. It also creates opportunities in component manufacturing, sales, financing and maintenance for a range of renewable energy technologies.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

Black carbon’s lifetime is on the order of days to a couple weeks, which is about 0.004% of the lifetime of other pollutants like CO 2 (which has a lifetime of 300 – 1000 years). This means that if we focus on limiting black carbon emissions, we will see very fast improvements in our atmosphere and health. Arctic Council.

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Another RGGI Raid? New York State Senate Proposes Pulling $138 million from the RGGI Fund

Law Columbia

million in auction proceeds that have been collected since the program was launched in 2008. These diversions are inconsistent with New York State regulations aimed at ensuring the proceeds of the auctions would be spent on new programs to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Climate Policy and the Audacity of Hope

Legal Planet

Fourteen states now have net-zero emissions targets for the economy as a whole, and sixteen have zero-carbon targets for the grid. New California legislation will require corporations to disclose their carbon emissions. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. But it does make other things easier.

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Seven essential books on energy and climate change

Edouard Stenger

All point out to one certainty: Humankind has the technological tools to fix this crisis. Sustainable energy – without the hot air (2008). Verdict: This book shows that reversing climate change is not a technological one as we have the solutions to do so. – . This should cover your summer reads needs in an ample manner.

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Edouard Stenger

As I have spent some sleepless nights since the latest IPCC report on how Mankind has to halve its carbon emissions by 2030. As we shall see, this is already currently happening, it is the moral thing to do, the best economic choice, and the fastest and easiest way to halve our emissions. Demand response technologies.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon.

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