Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. Germany has dragged its feet on EVs because of its powerful car industry.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 12, 2022
We also evaluated the potential to accelerate the use of renewable energy dramatically through state-level renewable electricity standards, which have been major drivers of clean energy in recent decades. What job opportunities would this clean energy transition create? In the no-new-policy scenario, it drops to 3.3
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A Greener Life
JULY 30, 2021
The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) . They also get renewable energy from other European neighbours, mainly Denmark.
Law Columbia
MARCH 25, 2016
million in auction proceeds that have been collected since the program was launched in 2008. As noted in a letter to Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders from a large coalition of environmental groups: The wise stewardship of RGGI funds has ensured the deployment and use of renewable energy and efficiency initiatives.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
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.
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. 41] Most proponents of variable renewable energy thus look elsewhere for storage solutions.
Environmental Progress
JULY 29, 2020
Apex Clean Energy, based in Virginia, claimed on its 2017 application to the New York Electric Generation Siting Board that there were no known bald eagle nests where it planned to build. Thanks to American leadership, nuclear energy has proven to be the safest and cleanest way to make electricity.
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