A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

The Himalayan country currently depends on hydropower for nearly all its electricity generation. Photo credit: Department of Renewable Energy, MoEA Bhutan. Solar power is seen as a quick way to meet the growing demand for electricity. A few years ago, solar panels could not generate electricity on cloudy days.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2024

The 2024 current environmental issue focused on “Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future.” Pennsylvania won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms.

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ).

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. 585.107(a). 585.107(a). REN-N03 (May 27, 2020).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Lower Sesan 2 is not living up to its promise of dropping the price of electricity and providing for power to Cambodia’s power sector, because of a lack of water availability,” says Brian Eyler, who is the Southeast Asia director with the Stimson Center in Washington, DC.

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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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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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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Norway is a leader in renewable energy and on the adoption of electric cars. 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. Thanks to its sovereign wealth fund, future generations of Norwegians have little to fear.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

These measures will cut electricity use by over 51,000 kilowatt hours annually. Background DEP and Reinvestment Fund launched the Green Energy Loan Fund in 2009 with $12 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. True Energy Independence [Posted: March 9, 2022] PA Environment Digest The Leon H.

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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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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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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 22, 2023

Of note, Maryland law was amended last year by SB 528 and now provides, ELECTRIC COMPANIES AND GAS COMPANIES SHALL PROVIDE ENERGY DATA, INCLUDING WHOLE BUILDING AND AGGREGATE DATA, TO THE OWNERS OF COVERED BUILDINGS FOR BENCHMARKING PURPOSES.” It is time to act.

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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. On the demand side, switching our buildings, industries, and vehicles to electric power could double our electricity usage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

It would require the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to conduct a competitive bidding process to procure 1,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and 2,800 MW by 2035, enough to generate more than half of Maine’s electricity demand.

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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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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

The Government of Canada has committed to ending fossil fuel subsidies this year (a promise first made in 2009). The proposed hydrogen investment tax credit should only be made available for hydrogen produced from renewable energy, based on the recommendations of over 100 academics and 55 environmental and health organizations.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Granting the Commission the power to assess and decide on the taxonomy compliance of nuclear projects would introduce political risks not faced by fossil or renewable energy activities. Recommendations The 2040 and 2045 expiry dates for investments respectively in existing and new nuclear infrastructure should be removed.

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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. Opened in 2009, Glenwood Foods at Greencastle LLC is a grocery store located in Franklin County. On January 22, U.S.

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Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

It was created in 2009 by the anonymous programmer, Satoshi Nakamoto, and was designed to make it easier to transfer wealth from one party to another regardless of their geographical location. Verifying transactions uses electricity. Those that live in areas where electricity has a high cost will find it difficult to turn a profit.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

They might have a business person at the centre of the story, whether it is the Indian green energy entrepreneur, Sumant Sinha, or even the tech billionaire Bill Gates, but the issues are about government policies.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Last Thursday, December 15, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) seeking comments on proposed changes to its regulations governing the siting of interstate electric transmission lines. transportation and buildings) which will further increase the need for renewable generation.

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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. I am honored to address the Committee.

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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). Why will it be held in Glasgow?

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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. EPA ) held that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses meet the definition of an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. The West Virginia v.

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Vermont Law

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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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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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

2009 EPA formally finds that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. Trump EPA issues Affordable Clean Energy rule, repeals Clean Power Plan. 2021 Biden signs infrastructure bill with approximately $100 billion for electrical grid buildout, public transportation, and clean energy. 1998 U.S.

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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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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

States, Electricity Providers Allowed to Intervene in Case Concerning Management of Glen Canyon Dam. The district court adopted a magistrate judge’s findings, conclusions, and recommendations, finding that the plaintiff’s allegations of generalized harm failed to establish standing. 2:19-cv-120 (N.D.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The City also alleged that the companies engaged in a “greenwashing” campaign by creating misleading impressions of the role of renewable energy in the companies’ businesses and of their efforts to reduce their carbon footprints. 15,2 2009). They also opposed a motion by conservation groups to intervene in the case. Louisiana v.

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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. Likewise, Koch subsidiaries have jumped into smart grid and electric vehicle charging technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking -- EPA Honors Energy-Efficient Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

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