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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

The IRA and current state policies recognize this fact by including incentives for consumers and businesses to purchase electric vehicles and replace inefficient gas, oil, and propane boilers, furnaces, and water heaters with highly efficient electric heat pumps, which also provide cooling in the summer. Your thoughts?

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Ontario could easily phase out polluting fossil gas – if it wanted to

Enviromental Defense

Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. creating ice in off peak periods to supply cooling in peak periods. The government could provide financial incentives for large power users or groups of smaller users to reduce or shift demand during peak periods. As the U.S.

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DEP Celebrates $30 Million In Low-Interest Loans For High-Impact Commercial Energy Efficiency Projects

PA Environment Daily

Every time a company or organization installs an energy-efficient heating, cooling, or lighting system, it’s another step for Pennsylvania and the nation toward independence from fossil fuels. Local governments, businesses, school districts, hospitals, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. Who Can Apply? Sullivan in 1978.

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Extending the license of existing installations is particularly efficient in environmental and economic terms.

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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How Can We Build Transmission Infrastructure Responsibly?

Legal Planet

The high-voltage wires must be well insulated, kept cool, and set at a safe distance from any people or obstacles. And to do that, transmission products must both get access to the land—by purchase or eminent domain—and get the necessary permits from state, and sometimes local, governments. The IRA also provides $9.7

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

A long-term objective would be that, consistent with other environmental legislation in which California has taken a lead, the federal government may eventually take over and establish a comprehensive corporate climate disclosure regulation of its own. Jody Freeman, “The Private Role in Public Governance,” 75 N.Y.U. 36] Michael E.