Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

But in trying to shape a regulation that would mollify opponents—largely industries responsible for the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change—the SEC failed to relieve investors of responsibility for determining how companies will fare in the clean energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The wind is in our sails on the voyage towards a clean energy future. Wind energy is currently the largest renewable energy source in the US, and the industry is growing fast. The World Bank predicts that the demand for neodymium for energy technologies in 2050 will be 37% of total 2018 neodymium production.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Renewable energy sources are perhaps the most obvious of these, and the transition to them is already under way. “I Among the main reasons to choose a career in renewables, Davies cites the growth that the sector is experiencing due to the increased focus on climate change and demand for clean energy.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

Worldwide, the cost of utility scale solar fell 82% between 2010 and 2019, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), driven down by cheaper manufacturing costs in China, which accounts for around 72% of global production. “More and more people are embracing this kind of clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

. -- Electricity Exporter: Pennsylvania is the second-largest net supplier of total energy to other states, after Texas. Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Yaw noted the IEO would be modeled after Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office , which was created by Act 120 of 2010, and Act 100 of 2016.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Since PPL's last climate assessment report in 2017, the company has taken a number of steps to advance its emissions reductions and overall clean energy transition strategy. The transition to a clean energy future offers us an opportunity to rethink how energy is produced, stored, delivered and used.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 25, 2022

Legislation includes: -- Ending the Moratorium On Fracking In Delaware River Basin: House Bill 2451 (Fritz-R-Wayne) proposes to unilaterally change the Delaware River Basin Commission compact by including a provision that would reverse the unconventional shale gas fracking moratorium adopted by the Commission in various forms starting in 2010.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It was also mentioned recently by Senator Casey, who proposed that natural gas — fitted with CCS technologies — be used, along with renewables, to increase clean electricity. Construction of the plant began in 2010; by 2017, the plant was still not in service and the costs had risen to $7.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A transition to 100% clean energy is an urgent priority worldwide to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change and preserve a livable planet. By 2010, the US had installed 2.6 In a 100% renewable energy by 2050 scenario, copper demand for solar projects may almost triple, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

Some years ago, I began to feel the most important thing I could do was learn how to replace fossil fuel with renewable energy. For 30 years I have been an advocate for offshore wind development off New England’s coast and for the creation of institutions to support a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. How is that going to happen? Their report, however, comes with a warning.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

above 2010 levels, instead of the sharp downward trajectory we need. Yes, not just coal, but also fossil gas and oil must be rapidly turned down, even as we ramp up renewable energy and energy efficiency. Committing to tripling renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency globally by 2030.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen The British oil and gas giant BP , which, until recently, has been one of the oil and gas giants with the most ambitious clean energy plans, has joined the chorus of fossil fuel giants moving away from net zero. The energy sector’s volatility makes it hard to answer this with any convincing argument.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

At least partly in response to the Berkeley gas ban, gas utilities in more than a dozen states also have set up front groups to promote gas as “clean, reliable and affordable,” denigrate renewable energy, and oppose gas bans and other climate solutions, the Energy and Policy Institute has reported.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In its papers supporting the order to show cause, the attorney general said that PwC had served as Exxon’s independent auditor since before 2010 (the time period covered by the subpoena), a role in which PwC examined whether Exxon’s financial statement disclosures were supported by evidence.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

Reduce Demand For Natural Gas/Transition To Clean Energy Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry and their politicians want you to forget the agreement has a second major objective-- reduce overall natural gas demand by accelerating market deployment of clean energy measures.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

In 2000, the electric generation fuel mix was 57% coal, 36% nuclear, 2% renewable, 2% petroleum and 1% gas. In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables. I n 2017, electricity generation was 35% coal, 35% nuclear, 23% natural gas, 6% renewable, biomass and other. from other sources.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2010, Gov. “Maybe this is like a topic for the budget hearings,” said Ziadeh. Note: The track record of the General Assembly and recent governors providing General Fund support to environmental programs isn’t exactly steller. [In Rendell actually bragged about the fact General Fund monies for DEP were below 1994-95 appropriations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

The natural gas industry has also not developed 65 percent of the State Forest land it leased from DCNR for drilling in 2008 and 2010. Thompson Introduces Resolution Highlight PA’s Energy Capabilities -- Business Insider: Republican Cong. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The cost of electricity generated from solar panels fell by 89 per cent between 2010-2022. Low-income families and renters are hit the hardest as they haven’t had access to government support to access cheaper renewable energy or heat pumps, which dramatically cut home heating and cooling costs.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 5, 2024

He has participated in expeditions, forums and events on climate, and has represented Denmark as a promoter of renewable energy. In 2010 he wrote the foreword in the book Naturen og klimaændringerne i Nordøstgrønland (The Nature and Climate Change in Northeast Greenland).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 31, 2022

Just two months before COP26, the government released Vietnam’s eighth power development plan (PDP8) which covered 2021–2030 and relied heavily on foreign investment in non-renewable energy. Data from Global Energy Monitor show that since 2010 Vietnam’s coal sector has received at least US$29 billion in foreign investment.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2024

In 2010, a major climate change law passed by the House died in the Senate, but 12 years later, a major climate law passed both Houses. In the meantime, there had been a revolution in energy economics. In 2010, the cost of onshore wind was almost twice that of the cheapest fossil fuel generation. GW to 18.8

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Coal power generation must be reduced to 80 per cent below 2010 levels by 2030 and be phased out before 2040 in order to meet targets set out by the Paris Agreement. . Julia Levin, National Climate Program Manager, Environmental Defence, said: We have the solutions and the know-how to quickly replace coal with renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 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. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

The European Union is set to unveil an energy plan this week to accelerate a transition to clean, renewable energy and to “reduce permanently our dependence on imports of natural gas.” Does Europe Want Our Gas? And they meant all natural gas imports. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

With respect to the analysis of climate change impacts, the appellate court said the City of Brea had appropriately selected a significance threshold for project greenhouse gas emissions that was higher than one used for a similar residential project in 2010.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Oregon Court Reinstated Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives. An Oregon Circuit Court set aside the Oregon Secretary of State’s decision to reject two clean energy ballot initiatives and allowed the measures to be processed and circulated for the November 2020 election. Golden State Environmental Justice Alliance v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

The Obama Administration set the first vehicle GHG emissions standards in 2010 for vehicles manufactured in model years 2012 through 2016, and set revised standards in 2012 for model years 2017 through 2025. entered into more than 70 contracts to procure renewable energy, totaling more than 13,000 megawatts.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2023

In 2010, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations introduced the concept of “climate-smart agriculture” and its carbon-reducing objectives in an influential report that was widely read in Washington and other world capitals. Being able to digest biomass into clean, renewable energy coming from the Heartland.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years. Renewables,” I added, “have gotten peanuts in comparison.” ExxonMobil is still funding those folks, big time.”

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The court described the concerns that led to policies favoring use of renewable energy sources, including oil and gas shortages and global climate change, and said these policies were “chosen by the policy makers in our Legislature and … cemented in Kansas law.” Briefs Filed in Challenges to ACE Rule and Clean Power Plan Repeal.

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