Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Uber founded in 2009; Lyft in 2012), public micromobility systems such as scooters and bikeshares, electrification, shared automated vehicles : all came with the promise of “ faster, smarter, greener ” cities that would be “ connected, heterogenous, intelligent and personalized.” New ride hailing services (e.g.,

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JUNE 14, 2023

percent of US electricity and utility-scale solar generated 3.4 In 2012, coal generated 37 percent of US electricity. Coal’s decline and the rapid growth of renewables helped cut the US electricity sector’s carbon emissions by 24 percent over the last decade. Last year, wind generated 10.2 Add hydropower’s contribution of 6.2

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

percent of the state’s total electricity generation and has created a local solar market with hundreds of solar businesses across the state, installing primarily customer-sited solar. megawatt solar project in Middelburg that is saving the Midd-West School District over $350,000 annually and offsetting 100 percent of its electricity needs.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Norway is a leader in renewable energy and on the adoption of electric cars. Their wellbeing budget and the kinder tone of its politics is an inspiration. I remember writing, all the way back in 2009, about an announcement from the New Zealand government that they wanted to be zero carbon by 2025. But where are they on climate?

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

In 2009, EPA made a finding that six greenhouse gasses endanger public health and welfare because of their contribution to climate change. EPA decision or EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding. Apparently, the Court will know economic and political significance when it sees it. The West Virginia v. The West Virginia v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

However, Petitioners have argued that the new standards exceed EPA’s authority, were adopted in an arbitrary or capricious manner, and are otherwise barred by an expansive reading of the developing “major questions doctrine” because they may have nebulous effects on national security and electric grid reliability.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Those changes were implemented (more or less) simultaneously for gas and electricity and focused on similar issues of organizing markets and stimulating competition. This is a positive development, given that the applicability of the 2009 Gas Directive to hydrogen has been discussed controversially in the past.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

An entity classified as an “arm of the state” would be entitled to sovereign immunity provided by the Eleventh Amendment; in contrast, a “political subdivision” is not afforded the same protection. 2009) (citing McCarthy ex rel. Tarrant County , 798 F.2d 2d 736, 744-45 (5 th Cir. Stallworth v. Caremark, Inc., 3d 655, 658 (5th Cir.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Johan said the sewer line started to get blocked on a regular basis from 2009. The white vehicles in the background belong to a municipal crew who were restoring electric cables to the pump station, which had been stolen. He said when they do have electricity only one of four aerators work, a biofiltration unit also doesn’t work.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

Corporate and securities law – as well as companies and their leaders acting through lobbying and politics – also have major roles to play. [9] Scope 2 emissions are those attributable to producing the energy (principally electricity) that the company buys. 24] SB 253 does not require materiality. GHG emissions are reported this way.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy. Having an expiration date creates political investment uncertainty and risk, which is precisely what the Taxonomy intended to remove. This makes the condition impractical.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). One of the key issues now is to ensure that the talks themselves run smoothly.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- November 2 Election -- Inquirer: Republican National Committee Chair: ‘Freedom Will Win’ In PA Judicial Elections Next Month -- Inquirer: PA Bar Assn. Criticizes TV Ad By Republican PA Supreme Court Candidate Kevin Brobson -- Spotlight PA: Things To Know About Nov.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Founded in 2009, it uses phone location data to match drivers and customers. Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Uber Technologies Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Walmart Major Procurement Contracts Uber contracts with the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Founded in 2009, it uses phone location data to match drivers and customers. Political Influence OpenSecrets.org Profile of Uber Technologies Image Similar Companies Related Gulliver Profiles Walmart Major Procurement Contracts Uber contracts with 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. Renewables have the same impact everywhere in the world.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), a sub-agency within Interior, promulgated regulations in 2009 which set forth the procedure for leasing, siting, construction, and operation of offshore wind projects. To date, the development of offshore wind in federal waters has largely been limited to the east coast. 585.107(a).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

EPA applies to greenhouse gases emitted from motor vehicles, and under which EPA issued an endangerment finding for greenhouse gases in 2009. The court correctly noted that, under the Supreme Court’s holding in American Electric Power v. Alternatively, the U.S.

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Physics World

JUNE 19, 2021

Randolf Pohl was not in a good mood, late one evening in July 2009. That much seemed true when the task group first published an official value of the proton radius – or, more specifically, the average radius of the proton’s electric charge – in 2002. That becomes a political question I guess,” he replies. Scattered doubts.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 9, 2020

You just need to divide that into the amount of electricity it produces every year, and you can compare them and what you'll find is it's always two orders of magnitude larger. I'm agnostic of whether cars will be hydrogen or electricity, but doesn't really matter. I was only coming slowly to pro-nuclear in 2009. Nick: Yeah.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The news: The White House Council on Environmental Quality proposed reversing Trump administration changes to the National Environmental Policy Act regulation, which carries implications for environmental reviews on everything from highway projects and fossil fuel lease sales to pipelines and electric transmission lines.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The greenhouse gas emissions and air quality measures include grant programs for electric trucks and cars; on-site solar generation commitments; contributions to a solar advocacy fund; on-site electric vehicle chargers; electrification of equipment; and provision of lower-carbon hydrogen to tenants if available under commercially reasonable terms.

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