Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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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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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It was initiated nine years ago, but now it comes back to haunt the German government with a vengeance. The background of the case goes back to the year 2011. The residual electricity volumes are a key-instrument of the Atomic Energy Act and the German nuclear phase out.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. 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 . Source: IESO [link].

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. 2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance. We need the active support of the federal government. Bush signs and U.S. 1998 U.S. 2020 U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

The governing bodies that regulate California’s energy system are almost as complicated and arcane as the sprawling network of wires, poles, and power plants they oversee. At a more granular level, this includes critical decisions about where our electricity will come from and whether it will be clean. California needs a new approach.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 15, 2023

The Department of Energy wants public input on priority electric transmission line corridors. That decision was itself a reversal of a 2011 determination that perchlorate merited a national limit in drinking water. government water policy. The Rundown Federal judges order the EPA to set a limit on perchlorate in drinking water.

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Energy and Climate Law

APRIL 29, 2020

Germany The legislator in Germany reacted in early March and established three so called ´moratoria´ for the duraction of three months: one safeguarding tenants who cannot pay their rent anymore, one affecting private borrowers and a third one that applies to electricity and gas customers.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Food Safety Modernization Act, an umbrella law, was signed by President Obama in 2011. Much of the order is directed at the sources of energy used by the federal government. There are targets for electric vehicle purchasing and net-zero emissions from buildings. government water policy. Hawaii Water Contamination.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Nelson has been supportive of municipal efforts to transition local government facilities to 100% clean and renewable energy. from Villanova University School of Law.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We saw a continued focus on incentivizing affordable and infill developments on the condition that the project pay prevailing wages (AB 2011), reducing barriers for specified sustainable transit projects (SB 922), and amendments akin to “pet project exemptions” that are targeted to solving a narrower set of concerns (SB 118 and SB 886).

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

Barges up to 300 feet long and 90 feet across will carry 12 miles of spooled electrical cable, navigation equipment, a tall crane and a specialized crew. The commission in April approved a 25-year state contract offering billions of dollars to Hydro-Quebec, a corporation tied to the Quebec government, for delivering renewable energy.

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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 risk of explosion ultimately shut down the Delaware Memorial Bridge to traffic, and residents were told to shelter in place as the flammable chemical leaked from the plant. This event was hardly unique.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Ironically, the country already gets a lot of its electricity supply via interconnectors from France – produced through nuclear energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Yet the future is clearly one dominated by renewables, not these fossil fuels, as evidenced by the pending Senate bill that will direct hundreds of billions of dollars to boosting clean energy with initiatives like tax breaks for electric vehicles and solar panels. That’s the gravy train the supermajors should ride.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2021

A brief recap of the saga to date: – About a decade ago, the Obama administration brokered a deal between automakers, California, and the federal government to set fuel economy and tailpipe emissions standards that would be applicable nationwide. mpg by 2025. A total of ten lawsuits ended up as a consolidated action in the D.C.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 29, 2023

The country announced its nuclear phase-out on the back of the Fukushima incident in Japan in 2011. The coal share of the electricity mix is alarmingly high at 31%, amongst the highest in the EU and at least the highest amongst the richest and most developed EU countries. The facts The facts are pretty simple.

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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. Climate neutrality is far off.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 6, 2023

Accepting the ongoing hegemonic great power rivalry between the governments of the United States and China, this act is particularly significant for renewable energy because Camel Group, headquartered in Xiangyang City, is among the largest vehicle battery manufacturers in the world and the largest heavy commercial vehicle battery manufacturer. “We

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

DOE Releases National Clean Hydrogen strategy And Roadmap To Build A Clean Energy Future, Accelerate Manufacturing Boom PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- AP: PA House Passes Bill To Require Electronically Filed Campaign Finance Reports -- Gov.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 15, 2023

With commercial leasing slow to adapt, one retailer’s policy is to charge its landlords an annual flat fee for providing the information to the landlord so that the landlord can report whole building information to the government and restrict the landlord’s use for any other purpose requiring the landlord to treat the information as confidential.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It Jatam’s 2021 report reveals that coal permits issued by local and central governments cover 72,000 sq km of East Kalimantan’s 127,000 sq km, or 70% of the province. gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

He served as vice chairman of the Commission from 2011 to 2015, and from October 2021 through September 2022. OPSI is a regional partnership among 14 state regulatory agencies with jurisdictions in the service area of PJM, which operates the high-voltage electric transmission grid and wholesale electricity market. Coleman Jr.

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Breezometer

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But outside of the tragic loss of life and property, some of the most disruptive impacts from wildfires also inflict infrastructure, and utility and telecommunication companies often take the brunt of the hit: Power outages - loss of electricity has become an expected occurrence during wildfires. billion on wildfire mitigation strategies.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 31, 2022

Just two months before COP26, the government released Vietnam’s eighth power development plan (PDP8) which covered 2021–2030 and relied heavily on foreign investment in non-renewable energy. After its COP26 announcements, the government asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to revise the PDP8, though an updated draft is yet to be released.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. SB 6 and AB 2011 enable residential development in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use.

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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

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

By Council To Modernize Governance -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN] -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, Oil Industry -- Sen.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

European world leaders and Russia celebrate during the opening ceremony of the gas pipeline Nordstream 1 in 2011. In the UK the David Cameron government (2010 – 2016) got rid of their energy efficiency programmes – labelling it as green crap. Photo credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

It has been producing from nine to 14 percent of the country’s electricity for the past few years. The sector has 8,230 direct jobs (compared to a massive 32,000 in 2010-2011… or 12,000 in 2012). To conclude, it seems the Socialist government of Francois Hollande has not done much in terms of energy transition.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Backgrounds After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were temporarily shutdown due to safety concerns. This led to the increased use of other energy sources, especially coal, for electricity generation. and Kansai Electric Power Co., Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobelco Power Kobe No.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The same month Chinese authorities closed Toyota and Foxconn factories in Sichuan province, a leading manufacturing center, after a record-breaking heat wave curtailed hydropower output and strained the electric grid. government ordered the seven states to correct a longstanding misalignment of water supply and demand. Brett Walton.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. The government resigned on 5 January, and the situation continues to develop. The government resigned on 5 January, and the situation continues to develop. Social unrest related to fossil fuels is not a new phenomenon in Kazakhstan.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. US electricity sector emissions decreased 34 percent from 2005 to 2019, including an astonishing 10 percent in 2019, which is the largest year-on-year decline in history.

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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. Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

Third, these lower incomes and high-risk jobs leave rural areas dependent on government subsidies. As climate change continues to increase the cost of living in rural regions, these areas will continue to be vulnerable if government support cannot account for imbalances in increasing costs. This map shows projected changes in U.S.

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