Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Clean Energy.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2011, my community experienced what was the second-largest oil spill in the province’s history – 4.5 What are the different renewable energy technology options for communities, and how do they get built? I am from the Lubicon Cree First Nation in Little Buffalo, Alberta. How is one built – technically, jurisdictionally?

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Germany has six remaining nuclear reactors which are due to be closed down next year which will remove a huge source of zero-carbon electricity from the German economy unable to be taken up by other clean energy sources such as solar and wind.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

This mandate will be the first of its kind for a Japanese municipality and will require about 50 major builders to equip homes of up to 2,000 square metres (m2) with renewable energy technologies, mainly solar power. But the country switched off most of its nuclear generators following the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

We believe we must take a science-based approach and prioritize policies and technologies that enable us to liberate nature and elevate humanity. The Regulation requires the use of “best” technologies and standards for existing and future nuclear energy applications as opposed to accepted and appropriate technologies and standards.

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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. The scale of the IPCC’s undercount shocks once applied to the EU’s “clean” energy plans.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2024

Connecticut created the first American green bank in 2011, then New York in 2013, followed by many other states and municipalities largely with the help of GGRF awardee Coalition for Green Capital. For political expediency, green banks are often reduced to simpler stories about financing a particular technology or group.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

Similar extreme cold weather caused grid emergencies in 2011, 2014, 2018, and again in 2022. That technology has been available to homeowners for more than a half century. The FERC-NERC report recommends this technology as if it were new.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Key points to the rule include changing the process from a “first-come, first-serve” to a “first-ready, first-served cluster study process”; speeding up the interconnection queue processing by loosening procedural costs and deadlines; and incorporating technological advancements in the interconnection process.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

Why go for gas when renewables like wind and solar, and the battery storage technology that makes them reliable, are now the cheapest source of new electricity generation in Canada ? In Alberta, renewable energy companies recently signed contracts to feed green power to the grid that will be cheaper than natural gas plants.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

CBD said that even if rehearing were not granted, the court should modify its “overbroad” conclusion that EPA’s Guidance for Determining Best Available Control Technology for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Bioenergy Production (Bioenergy BACT Guidance) was rational. Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. United States v.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

In his recent testimony to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the coauthor of Princeton University’s Net-Zero America study noted that just because an energy technology is not reliable does not mean that it has no role in a reliable system. [8] percent of the grid’s power. I believe the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

TODAY 9:45: House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee meets to consider House Bill 1615 (O’Mara-D-Delaware) setting energy efficiency standards for appliances. Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch online. Room G-50 Irvis Building.

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

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- Shapiro Administration Commends 3 PA Schools For Environmental Efforts As Green Ribbon Schools -- Warren Times - Josh Cotton: Students Participate In Annual Warren Conservation District Envirothon Competition -- Lock (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2023

Host 2023 Forest Products Equipment & Technology Exposition June 9-10 In Centre County [PaEN] -- Beaver County Times: Penn State Master Gardeners Of Beaver County Hosting Field Studies Of Trees In Regional Ecosystem -- Registration Open! RGGI] -- Pittsburgh 2030 District Announces Significant Progress In Reducing Carbon Emissions - 44.8%

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Rather, they resulted in low-wage service sector jobs, greater dependence on imported Chinese technologies, and higher energy costs. And over the last decade, the technology used in the vast majority of installed solar panels has only become 2-3 percent more efficient. The problem with renewables is physical.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A shift of that magnitude will take years to accomplish, just as it took years for Lake Erie to recover after the passage of the 1972 Clean Water Act. Technology for controlling phosphorus is available. Billions were spent on new technology and equipment to ensure water got much cleaner. . That once was the U.S.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Australia passes first climate legislation since 2011. The Government Accountability Office issued five new priority recommendations to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. White House: The National Science and Technology Council re-established the Subcommittee on Open Science in August 2022.

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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

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.

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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.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

This bill creates a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases NSF’s overall authorized funding level to $29 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026. A Letter from Eric Lander upon starting as Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy – White House. Executive Branch.

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