South Korea and Climate Change
Legal Planet
JUNE 16, 2022
Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019. Actual generation is tilted a bit more toward fossil fuels and nuclear.
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Pennsylvania’s Electric Grid Is Dependent On One Fuel To Generate 59% Of Our Electricity; Market Moving To Renewables + Storage
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 13, 2024
On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables.
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Green jobs for physics graduates: decarbonizing energy sources
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 While studying at the University of Birmingham, UK, Canavan was inspired by a nuclear-physics professor to go into nuclear power. “I Courtesy: Crossfield Fusion).
The politics of (bad) policy design: French solar panels and Northern Irish boilers
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. speculative ones.
DEP Outlines 2022 Priorities: Make Up Deficit In Oil & Gas Funding; Get Resources Needed To Invest New Federal Mine Reclamation, Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funds
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.
Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce 2021 Texas Grid Failure
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.
Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016
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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