Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The numbers for this year’s edition are quite impressive: Nuclear is the most expensive per MWh: $148 (+20% since 2009). But utility-scale solar PV is at $50 (-72% since 2009) and wind reaches $45 (-47%). O ne can expect a speedy transition to clean energy sources. Then comes coal, with $102. Natural gas is at $60.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid. In some states, when the legislature created new clean energy goals they also started transmission planning to help meet those goals.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Simon Birkett - Clean Air in London. A former banker, Simon Birkett left the financial world in 2009 and pursued a new calling - tirelessly campaigning for clean air in London. And no doubt, the city needs him. A few years ago, London earned the title “the most polluted city in Europe.”

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Air Pollution Climate Scientist 2009 Government 98

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

The California LCFS Program was adopted in 2009 as one of the key measures to reduce GHG emissions in California under AB 32. The Draft Scoping Plan states that CARB will initiate a rulemaking on the LCFS to ensure it continues to support low-carbon fuels that will displace petroleum fuels. [1].

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

23 Innovative CEOs Enabling And Expanding Decarbonization; Part Of Global Clean Energy Action Forum Erie 2030 District Achieves 22.4% Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6%

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It did though for the first time in those 28 years the COP has been held, signal that the fossil fuel industry is on borrowed time and the future belongs to clean energy, albeit the process to get there has been painful.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

Optimizing this mix will help to ensure that clean energy and other climate mitigation strategies are clear, winning alternatives in the marketplace and in communities—to promote equity, drive innovation, and encourage consumer adoption. The views presented here are my own. ]. What is a Scoping Plan?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

As detailed in the RGGI investment plan , these funds are typically used to support energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in New York State. This is not the first time that the legislature has diverted RGGI proceeds for other purposes—it also diverted $90 million in 2009 and $41 million in 2015 to the general fund.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

recognizes the ocean offers a wealth of opportunities to support our transition to a clean energy and a sustainable and equitable future, and joins a groups of global leaders willing to work collectively to make that a reality. It was great to finally see the U.S. With this action, the U.S © Robyn Stegman.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As these companies are moving towards clean energy, an emerging source of renewable energy is wind power. The wind energy sector is gaining global traction, as exemplified by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s statement, in a speech given this month, that wind energy would be powering every home in the U.K.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As these companies are moving towards clean energy, an emerging source of renewable energy is wind power. The wind energy sector is gaining global traction, as exemplified by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s statement, in a speech given this month, that wind energy would be powering every home in the U.K.

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Renewable Energy Wind Power Solar Power 2009 40

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. Brazil’s energy source is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world, with 47.5% of primary energy demand met by clean energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

A proposed offshore wind procurement bill in Maine would go a long way to enable the state to meet its climate and clean energy targets and become a national leader in floating offshore wind technology. That said, offshore wind development will be critical to meet state and regional climate and clean energy requirements.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 5, 2024

Denmarks incoming king Crown Prince Frederik attending the Nordic Climate Solutions in 2009. He has participated in expeditions, forums and events on climate, and has represented Denmark as a promoter of renewable energy. Photo credit: Johannes Jansson / norden.org, CC BY 2.5 dk via Wikimedia.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

The clean-energy transition that is one focus of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will require big changes in our electric grid. But two appellate-court decisions strictly limited this authority: A 2009 Fourth Circuit decision, Piedmont Environmental Council v.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

Budget 2023 is a critical opportunity for the Government of Canada to uphold its commitment to ending all fossil fuel subsidies and redirect that support into clean energy,” said Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate at Environmental Defence Canada. billion and $18 billion respectively.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 23, 2022

The study examined 405 children who were diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia between 2009 and 2017. The rush to establish domestic supply chains for clean energy technologies is creating what some are now calling the “battery belt” of manufacturers across America’s heartland, many of them located in the Great Lakes region. .

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

The bill is sprawling, covering climate and energy topics as diverse as electric vehicles, building decarbonization, clean energy manufacturing and supply chains, agriculture, and greening the electricity system, all through a range of tax incentives and direct grants.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Summary: The expiry date on nuclear energy is baseless, arbitrary and serves no useful purpose. It will cause uncertainty and add unnecessary costs and deployment bottlenecks which could delay climate mitigation and the transition to a clean energy system of Member States.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

Reaching the Paris agreement goals would require a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040,” he said. “To Rather than start with the ongoing rush for minerals, Turner began “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away… in 2009” when the U.S. China Clean Energy Research Center, or CERC.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

The Great Plains Institute , using data from a 2009 Department of Conservation and Natural Resources report , estimates the state could store about 2.4 Street Introduces Bill To Set A New Clean Energy Standard And Support Carbon Capture To Eliminate All Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Power Plants By 2050 -- Why Carbon Capture?

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Carbon Dioxide 2009 Carbon Emissions Atmosphere 58

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

689 was struck down in 2009 in Piedmont Environmental Council v. is to achieve its clean energy ambitions. Among other things, Order No. This aspect of Order No. FERC , with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that FERC could not approve a project that had been expressly rejected by a state.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

23 Innovative CEOs Enabling And Expanding Decarbonization; Part Of Global Clean Energy Action Forum [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Suburban Philadelphia Firm Bets On New Technology to Store Solar Power 24/7 -- Erie 2030 District Achieves 22.4% Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6%

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. 2009 EPA formally finds that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. Trump EPA issues Affordable Clean Energy rule, repeals Clean Power Plan. EPA , striking down Clean Power Plan.

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Paris Agreement Carbon Emissions Clean Energy 2007 198

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2009, the U.S. But in approving legislation this year to rebuild infrastructure and fund significant expansion of clean energy and electrified transportation to reduce climate-changing emissions, the U.S. There are many others. Congress is displaying fresh resolve to fix systemic challenges. That once was the U.S.

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Clean Water Act 2017 2010 Conservation 361

Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Vaclav Smil, a widely-respected energy scholar, has shown that it would take 25-50 percent of all land in the US to go 100 percent renewable. percent of its land for energy. Today, the US uses just 0.5 The expansion of industrial renewables raises environmental justice concerns.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

2] In 2009, the Obama administration formed the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon (IWG) to provide federal agencies with tools for quantifying the benefits of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. [3] National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. [2] 9] The current IWG’s work on its final SC-GHG estimates is ongoing. [10]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

New Hampshire’s 2009 Climate Action Plan is the product of a very diverse and thoughtful steering committee. And it starts with state and local governance that is aligned with making people safer, affording us clean energy choices, and spurring economic development consistent with a resilient future. We can make a difference.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The California Court of Appeal reversed a trial court’s determination that the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 required the Delta Stewardship Council to adopt performance measure targets as legally enforceable regulations in the long-term management plan for the Delta to achieve certain objectives of the Act.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts , EPA issued its “ Endangerment Finding ” in 2009, which concluded that “six greenhouse gases … taken in combination endanger both the public health and the public welfare of current and future generations.” Last year, local governments in the U.S.

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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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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. 15,2 2009). HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 145.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

The Clean Power Plan was the culmination of years of legal and technical haggling over EPA authority and obligations, including the landmark Massachusetts v. It sets a framework for states and utilities across the country to fully reckon with their power plants’ carbon emissions.

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Nitrogen Oxides Clean Air Act 207

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

For more than two decades, the Koch network has been diligently spreading disinformation to sabotage efforts to transition to a clean energy economy, more often than not by attacking proposed climate policies on economic grounds. Investing in Clean Energy While Trashing It. It’s much too little, much too late.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Congress created CFLRP in 2009 to invest in landscape-scale restoration to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire, enhance forest health, and support rural economies. CFLRP project proposals are developed collaboratively with USDA Forest Service staff and partners and are selected through a competitive process.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Comitta To Introduce Bill Investing RGGI Proceeds In Helping Communities & Workers In Clean Energy Transition, Environmental Justice Areas, Promote Energy Efficiency -- Rep. -- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb.

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Conservation 2021 Natural Gas Climate Change 63

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The anti-backsliding study was due in June 2009, 18 months after EISA’s enactment. Stanford Professor Sued Scientific Journal and Article Authors Who Critiqued His Work.

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