Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Grid failures start fires From 2001 to 2023, roughly 92 million acres in the United States have been burned by lightning-caused fires , and about 68 million acres have been burned by fires caused by human activity , electrical operations being just one example. Downed power lines can remain “energized” as they fall to the grass below.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Electricity 2019 259

Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The background of the case goes back to the year 2011. In essence the court agreed with Vattenfall that it had been expropriated because it was not allowed to make use of the so called residual electricity volume (Reststrommenge) that had been allocated for this particular plant.

Nuclear Power 239

Nuclear Power 2018 Electricity 2016 239

Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 6, 2022. Besides the kilowatt-hours it generates, Glen Canyon provides key services to the electric grid. The country’s second largest reservoir and a lynchpin in the intermountain electric grid, Powell is more dirt than water these days. Currently the lake is at 3,534 feet.

Electricity 338

Electricity Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Wind Power 338

Law and Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Although no National Corridor designations are currently in effect, the Inflation Reduction Act provides $2 billion for loans to support electric transmission lines in National Corridors. Whether that process will be successful—thus allowing FERC to exercise its expanded permitting authority—remains to be seen. Background. FERC Order No.

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Energy Policy Act 2009 2005 Electricity 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

The chart above shows the oils and fats used to make biodiesel and renewable diesel in 2022. Among other links, in 2022 Chevron purchased the largest biodiesel producer in the US, the Renewable Energy Group, and Marathon Petroleum and Phillips 66 are converting oil refineries to produce renewable diesel. percent in 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

But a March 2022 analysis from the investor consortium Climate Action 100+ determined that no major oil company was on track to meet the Paris goals. In a January 2022 report on its climate plans, ExxonMobil pledged to direct $15 billion toward emission reduction efforts over the next six years, but that $15 billion breaks down to $2.5

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Fossil Fuels Coastal Erosion Carbon Dioxide Biofuels 264

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The 2021-2022 Legislative Session was light on CEQA amendments, and once again did not produce any significant reform. SB 6 was the companion bill to AB 2011, but it does not create a ministerial approval process. While not amendments to CEQA itself, these new targets are worth noting as they will invariably appear in CEQA documents.

2023 76

2023 2011 Greenhouse Electricity 76

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2023

On June 15, S&P Global reported on the results of a joint inquiry by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and North American Electric Reliability Corp into the impact of Winter Storm Elliot that caused a wave of unplanned power plant outages in December 2022, particularly in the PJM Interconnection electric grid region.

Natural Gas 54

Natural Gas 2011 Electricity 2014 54

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline. The EPA is currently working on updating the RMP rule, slated to be released for public comment in September 2022 with a final rule issued by August 2023. This event was hardly unique.

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Carbon Monoxide Climate Change 2011 Regulations 235

A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) . They also get renewable energy from other European neighbours, mainly Denmark.

Climate Change 98

Climate Change Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Nuclear Power 98

Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

3 is a requirement that the PUCT implement winter weatherization requirements so that each of the entities providing electric generation service must implement measures to prepare its generation assets to provide adequate electric generation service during a weather emergency. Key to S.B.

2011 52

2011 Electricity 2021 2020 52

Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

3 is a requirement that the PUCT implement winter weatherization requirements so that each of the entities providing electric generation service must implement measures to prepare its generation assets to provide adequate electric generation service during a weather emergency. Key to S.B.

2011 52

2011 Electricity 2021 2020 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. But California’s LCFS has been struggling and is approaching a treacherous precipice. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.

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Biofuels Deforestation 2030 2025 270

Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

Background Immediately after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were shut down. This led to a considerable decrease in Japan’s overall electricity supply, leading to concerns about potential outages. Having that situation, new CFPPs were unnecessary.

Carbon Dioxide 59

Carbon Dioxide Paris Agreement Climate Change Nuclear Power 59

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – February 9, 2022. The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. At a January 31, 2011, appointment the doctor ordered blood tests and chest X-rays, to check for infection. Read part one here.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

On May 6, 2022, the Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant filed an appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. As of May 2022 , there are 163 operating coal-fired power plants in Japan. However, one of the coal-fired power plants started operating on February 1, 2022.

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Paris Agreement Climate Change 2018 Fossil Fuels 143

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 13, 2022

On December 2, 2022, the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI) , in collaboration with the law firm Sidley Austin LLP, filed an amicus brief on behalf of five New York farmers and three community groups urging a New York appellate court to uphold the State’s new regulations for siting renewable energy projects.

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Renewable Energy Regulations 2020 Law 52

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2023

DEP noted the original notices of violation for the spills at these wells were issued on October 6, 2022 and the well operator has failed to provide a written response on how it will bring the well sites into compliance since then, despite repeated requests for action. The violations remain outstanding. [

Natural Gas 73

Natural Gas 2023 2011 Regulations 73

Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Department of Energy, February 24, 2022, [link]. The IEA noted that in 2022 China’s manufacturing capacity for wafers, cells, and modules rose 40-50 percent and almost doubled for silicon. Following Mariutti’s math, the esteemed scientific body underestimates the emissions from the EU’s solar installations built in 2022 alone by 5.4

Electricity 140

Electricity Fossil Fuels Government Carbon Emissions 140

Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Eugene M. EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. EPA MATS Regulatory Impact Analysis, 2011. It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990.

Ozone 40

Ozone Clean Air Act 2026 2015 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

A new North American Electricity Reliability Corporation (NERC) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) review of power outages and gas industry failures reveals the potential for prolonged and deadly power outages. But their simple, yet potentially life-saving recommendations are voluntary, and the responsible parties go unnamed.

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Electricity 2021 Renewable Energy Natural Gas 256

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Over Last Year [PaEN] [Posted: December 7, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Natural Gas Recycling Carbon Emissions Clean Energy 52

Law Columbia

AUGUST 11, 2022

Czech Republic v Poland (Mine de Turów, ECLI:EU:C:2021:420, ECLI:EU:C:2021:752, ECLI:EU:C:2022:74 ) concerned the operation of a lignite mine in Poland. The plant generates electricity for about three million Polish households, which amounts to around 7% of the country’s output. However, the case also holds climate aspects.

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Precautionary Principle 2030 2021 2026 40

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

On 2 January 2022, massive protests erupted throughout Kazakhstan , initially over the price of liquefied petroleum gas. Protests by oil workers in Zhanaozen in 2011 , which resulted in a massacre of protesters by police, were precipitated by unfair wages, violation of worker rights and other issues.

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Fossil Fuels Natural Gas 2019 Greenhouse 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

2023 was a milestone year for electric car sales in the US. Sales figure from VELOZ The top selling passenger car AND top selling light truck in CA in 2023, according to California New Car Dealers Association , were both electric vehicles with the Tesla Model 3 and the Tesla Model Y taking the top spots…as they also did in 2022.

Electricity 362

Electricity 2025 Climate Change 2023 362

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

More Background Since March 2011, the state Department of Health has been attempting to document health complaints of residents initially in unconventional oil and gas drilling areas and maintains a Health Complaints Registry. No written update on these studies has been posted on the webpage since July 1, 2022. Read more here.

Natural Resources 87

Natural Resources Natural Gas Climate Change Air Pollution 87

Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Section 1 of the bill exempts electric vehicle charging stations from the definition of “public utility” as long as the owner simply resells electricity supplied by a regulated public utility. Otherwise, sale of electricity by a charging station could lead to regulation of the facilities by the N.C. The law, G.S.

2019 40

2019 Law Renewable Energy Electricity 40

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Thus did the “Berlin Mandate” of 1995 (adopted at COP1) lead to the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and the “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” of 2011 (adopted at COP17) lead to the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015. Of course, the COP also decides where future meetings will be held.

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Paris Agreement Climate Change 2030 2015 130

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

On September 22, 2022, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Climate School co-hosted a Climate Week NYC webinar on “Siting Renewables in New York: Ambitious Climate Goals, a New Siting Process, and How It Is Going.” Background. Law §§ 66-p(2)(a), (b).

Renewable Energy 52

Renewable Energy Law 2030 Clean Energy 52

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

On December 27, 2022-- Christmas week-- a malfunction at the CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station in South Franklin Township, Washington County resulted in the release of an estimated 1.1 CNX Criminal Charges The Oak Springs Pigging Station has a long history of problems before the December 27, 2022 incident.

Natural Gas 96

Natural Gas Air Pollution 2012 2019 96

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] Victor, Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World (2022).

Regulations 98

Regulations Law 2023 Climate Change 98

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Construction and safe operation of new nuclear power plants, for the generation of electricity or heat, including for hydrogen production, using best-available technologies” Requiring “best-available technologies and standards” as opposed to simply existing, proven and appropriate ones increases regulatory complexity and investor risk.

Fossil Fuels 52

Fossil Fuels Regulations Waste Technology 52

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 4, 2022. In recent years, the closing of coal-power electric plants contributed to the deficit of the AML program. Entrance to a coal mine in Kentucky, 2011. Midwest is the target of more dollars to secure water and revive former energy strongholds. Photo © Department of the Interior.

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Breezometer

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Since the start of 2022, Australia has been battling wildfires every month. While fires can disrupt electricity service in affected areas, government safety initiatives like California’s Public Safety Power Shutoff program cut off whole areas preemptively, leaving thousands without electricity when they really needed it.

Electricity 52

Electricity 2018 Climate Change 2011 52

Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 6, 2023

The federal government began enforcing the UFLPA in June 2022. sold electric vehicles. The moral equivalence of U.S. Since then it has reviewed more than 4,600 shipments valued at more than $1.64

Biotechnology 52

Biotechnology Solar Power 2011 Government 52

Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable. Adding more variable energy sources to electricity grids, all else being equal, might not in itself make electricity less reliable. But all else is not equal. GW of wind produced at a rate of 0.65

2021 113

2021 Renewable Energy Electricity Natural Gas 113

Environmental and Urban Economics

JUNE 9, 2021

Back in 2011, my old friend Enrico Moretti published his important New Geography of Jobs book. My forthcoming 2022 book builds on this theme. You can read a synopsis here. Along with many other urban economic scholars, I am fascinated by how different geographic locations compete for jobs and people.

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Climate Change Sea Level 2021 2011 113