Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. Basic reasoning suggests the manufacturing shift must have added to solar’s carbon intensity. million cars to the road.

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Electricity Fossil Fuels Government Carbon Emissions 134

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2023

[RGGI] -- Pittsburgh 2030 District Announces Significant Progress In Reducing Carbon Emissions - 44.8% From Baseline; Savings Of $59.7

Natural Gas 81

Natural Gas 2023 Climate Change Conservation 81

Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

As a result, California’s retail electricity prices rose eight times faster than the nationwide average in the 10 years between January 2011 and December 2020, due to its increased use of variable energy sources. should maintain and expand its fleet of highly-reliable, carbon-free, and 94 percent efficient nuclear power plants.

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2021 Renewable Energy Electricity Natural Gas 108

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

In 2011 I invited Reagan-era economist Art Laffer to speak to a hall filled exclusively with New Hampshire Republicans, both leaders and rank and file conservatives. His address focused on corporate taxes, and he shared his expert opinion that a carbon tax had a legitimate place in our national revenue system.

Climate Change 246

Climate Change Politics Sea Level 2007 246

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. Petitioners challenging EPA’s new source performance standards for carbon emissions from power plants filed their opening briefs in the D.C. The count to which the defendant pleaded guilty involved a request for reimbursement of $363,668.50

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2016 Climate Change Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 40

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. California significantly expanded its use of renewable energy starting in 2011. 5] The U.S.

Electricity 100

Electricity Renewable Energy 2019 Nuclear Power 100

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Last year, my UCS colleagues working on climate science and corporate accountability found, in a peer-reviewed study , that 37% of the area burned in western North America since 1986 is attributable to the carbon emissions of just 88 fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers. That 37% equates to 19.8

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Electricity 2019 328

Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

A former Obama administration economist at the University of Chicago found last year that consumers in states with renewable energy mandates paid $125 billion more for electricity in the seven years after passage than they would have otherwise. It is thus misleading to describe climate change as either a “crisis” or “emergency.”

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2020 Climate Change Carbon Emissions Renewable Energy 52

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Comitta To Introduce Bill Investing RGGI Proceeds In Helping Communities & Workers In Clean Energy Transition, Environmental Justice Areas, Promote Energy Efficiency -- Rep. -- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb.

Conservation 48

Conservation 2021 Natural Gas Climate Change 48

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Challenge to Settlement in Utility Rate-Setting Case in New Mexico Cited Failure to Quantify Coal Plant’s Carbon Emission Risks. In March 2011, pursuant to the 2002 Act, the Minister had set a target of 50% reduction from 1990 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels by 2050. Attorney General of New York , No. __ (N.Y.

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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].

Greenhouse 40

Greenhouse 2015 2017 Regulations 40

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

FWS developed the interpretation in a 2011 “Polar Bear Memo” that addressed the determination of threatened status for polar bears.) Oregon Court Reinstated Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives. The court reportedly said the labor and equity provisions could be encompassed within a single subject with the clean energy mandates.

2020 40

2020 Climate Change Greenhouse Fossil Fuels 40

Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. should not enter into any climate agreement that fails to limit emissions from developing countries. 2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance.

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Paris Agreement Carbon Emissions Clean Energy 2007 246

Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. Citizens for Clean Energy v. Circuit Decision on Affordable Clean Energy Rule.

2021 45

2021 Fossil Fuels Endangered Species Act Climate Change 45

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Eastern District of California denied a motion for a preliminary injunction in a case challenging federal and state reviews and authorizations of a logging project and biomass energy facility on public forestland that burned during the 2013 Rim Fire. Friends of the Santa Clara River v. B296547 (Cal.

2020 40

2020 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Corps’ permits for oil and gas infrastructure have become a target for environmental groups seeking to stop new pipeline projects, but the agency will also play a key permitting role in boosting transmission infrastructure if the Biden administration is to realize its clean energy goals. The court determined that the U.S.

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2021 Endangered Species Act Ocean Climate Change 98