Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For years, grid parity – the time when solar and wind would be cost-competitive with fossil fuels and nuclear – was the holy grail of renewables energy, a target to reach in a distant future. The numbers for this year’s edition are quite impressive: Nuclear is the most expensive per MWh: $148 (+20% since 2009).

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In response, the industry is seeing a varying degree of investments in renewable energy and commitments to climate-related goals. As companies make this transition into renewable energy, one sector picking up speed is wind energy. The wind energy sector is gaining global traction, as exemplified by U.K.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2024

million in renewable energy projects to lower energy bills, generate new income, create jobs, and strengthen competition for Pennsylvania farmers and agricultural producers. We have seen a great impact from this Administration’s focus on clean energy projects here in Pennsylvania. On January 22, U.S.

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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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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. With that, we have achieved what we set out to do: keep 1.5

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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. As a result, transmission development is a crucial consideration for large-scale renewables planning. The IRA also provides $9.7

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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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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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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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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. Still, how does a local government tap in?

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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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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

will need to rapidly decarbonize its electricity generating system, replacing fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy systems. transportation and buildings) which will further increase the need for renewable generation. 689 was struck down in 2009 in Piedmont Environmental Council v. To get there, the 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. percent of its land for energy.

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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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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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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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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. And in 2022 alone, U.S.

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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

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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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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5% -- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb.

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