Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Companies and organizations (including the IOP) are not shy in boasting about the green credentials of their premises, from green roofs and ground-source heat pumps to smart lighting and renewable energy. Overall, cement accounts for 3% of the world’s carbon emissions. Wood you believe?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The decision to ditch coal was the biggest single action of its time to cut carbon emissions in North America. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 .

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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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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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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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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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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels. Ehrlich agreed. “In

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance. 2012 EPA adopts regulation limiting carbon emissions for new cars. Trump EPA blocks scheduled tightening of CO2 emissions standards for new cars. 2014 Supreme Court decides UARG 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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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.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2023

Million EPA Loan For Water Infrastructure Improvements -- Pittsburgh 2030 District Announces Significant Progress In Reducing Carbon Emissions - 44.8% Million In Utility Costs [PaEN] -- Covestro Signs First Major Renewable Energy Agreement For Its U.S. From Baseline; Savings Of $59.7

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

By contrast, the Obama administration’s proposed carbon regulation of the power sector, the “Clean Power Plan,” proposed emissions reductions of 32 percent — by 2030. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants.

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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. They seek a court decision setting aside government approvals of the power plant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The justices told EPA that it can set carbon emissions standards based only on interventions at individual power plants.

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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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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.) 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.

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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% Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation. The Biden administration has made it a priority to rapidly scale up the country’s offshore wind energy production. The court determined that the U.S.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Instead Mr. Ebell seems perfectly suited to eviscerate the efforts of the Obama Administration to reduce carbon emissions as part of the international cooperation to spare the globe from looming catastrophe. 29, 2011), [link]. [30]. Pandy, supra.

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