A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Some might see Germany as a climate leader already with its huge focus on building clean renewable energy capacity through its ‘energiwende ’ flagship initiative. While Germany has had a huge focus on renewable energy this has done little to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. In Germany, fossil fuels are king.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Clean energy is sweeping across America. In 2020, America generated almost four times as much renewable electricity from the sun and the wind as in 2011, with wind and solar now producing 11% of the nation’s electricity.

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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

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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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 .

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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

Energy Information Administration reported-- in our January Short-Term Energy Outlook , we forecast that rising electricity generation from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years. electric generators averaged $4.88

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Montour LLC - Natural Gas-fired Montour Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Derry Twp., Montour County. ( PA Bulletin, page.1965 Washington County. Received Feb. 6, Issued Feb. PA Bulletin, page.2007 Clinton County. Received Feb.

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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. Costly shutdown. The report; ’The One Billion Tons’ was commissioned by Ökomoderne e.V.,

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He has publicly called for investments in clean energy, green technologies, and environmental research. Nelson has been supportive of municipal efforts to transition local government facilities to 100% clean and renewable energy. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A native of Chilean Patagonia, Boric became known as one of the leaders of the country’s student protests of 2011. For Ana Lia Rojas, executive director of the Chilean Association of Renewable Energies (ACERA), Huepe’s immediate challenge as minister will be to confront the country’s stretched electricity system.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

Shapiro's New Energy/Climate Plans [PaEN] -- WHYY - Susan Phillips: Green Hydrogen: A Climate Change Solution Or Fossil Fuel Bait And Switch? -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: York Pilot Program Prepares Students For Green Energy Jobs -- LancasterOnline: Amid Air Pollution Concerns, Consumers Consider Electric Lawn Care -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: (..)

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

I came across several articles on my home country lately and thought it was the occasion to keep everyone updated on how the French energy transition is going on. First thing first, I am very disappointed that the Socialists running the country did so little on renewable energy sources during their mandate. click to enlarge.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

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. But even with that target, reform of Kazakhstan’s energy sector needs to happen if carbon neutrality by 2060 is to be a realistic goal.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Marco Raugei, a leading researcher of emissions from renewable technologies at Oxford Brookes University, embroiling both in an extended online spat. “We We all used Chinese electricity mixes for c-Si PV. But what she told Mariutti was not reassuring. And we still got results nowhere near as high as you imply one would.

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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 majority of the public might have backed an energy system free of nuclear energy, but fresh polling shows that the mood in the country has now changed and two-thirds of the public support keeping them open.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This blog post will summarize the highlights of the event, focusing on updates from Executive Director Houtan Moaveni of the New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES), as well as recommendations from panelists on how to further improve the siting process. Background. Law § 94-c(1).

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

In particular, an aging population combined with widely dispersed communities makes it difficult for emergency responders to reach all those who need assistance (Lal, Alvalapati and Mercer 2011). Figure 1. electricity expenditures by 2080-2099 compared to today. This map shows projected changes in U.S. Lower expenditures are blue.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

On Reporting Unauthorized Spills, Releases [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments At Oct. 25 Hearings On NPDES Stormwater Permits For Two Warehouse Projects In Lowhill Twp., 6 Online Program [PaEN] -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: What Can I Do About Climate Change? On Reporting Unauthorized Spills, Releases [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments At Oct.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“WM is proud to work with the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority and commends their transition to a cleaner, renewable fleet with renewable natural gas,” said Christopher Pilzer, director of sustainable growth, WM Capitol Area. “WM Over Last Year [PaEN] [Posted: December 7, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Renewable Energy. House Bill 329 (Renewable Energy Amendments) makes several relatively minor changes to energy laws. Otherwise, sale of electricity by a charging station could lead to regulation of the facilities by the N.C. reuse, recycling, or disposal as solid waste). The law, G.S. Vetoed Bills.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Granting the Commission the power to assess and decide on the taxonomy compliance of nuclear projects would introduce political risks not faced by fossil or renewable energy activities. Recommendations The 2040 and 2045 expiry dates for investments respectively in existing and new nuclear infrastructure should be removed.

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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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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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The performance standard for new coal-fired electric utility steam generating units is based on a highly efficient supercritical pulverized coal unit with partial carbon capture and storage as the best system of emission reduction (BSER). The count to which the defendant pleaded guilty involved a request for reimbursement of $363,668.50

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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. What Happened in Texas?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

More recently, much of the growth in renewable diesel has been from converted oil refineries, which already have the facilities for hydrogen treatment as well the logistics to receive trains or tanker ships of incoming oil (fossil or vegetable) and ship out finished diesel fuel. A comparison with electric vehicles in instructive.

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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. Coal was the cheapest and fastest way to meet Vietnam’s electricity needs. Vietnam’s renewable energy sector’s potential is booming.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2023

Million In Utility Costs [PaEN] -- Covestro Signs First Major Renewable Energy Agreement For Its U.S. RGGI] -- TribLive: PJM Interconnection: Closure Of Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant Won’t Impact Electric Grid Reliability -- Utility Dive: FERC To Oversee Settlement Talks To Resolve Complaints About $1.8

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Finally, Gleick claims I argue that the “only solutions” I believe “will work” are “nuclear energy and uninhibited economic growth,” but later writes, “His passionate belief that nuclear is the only answer to our energy and climate problems (maybe along with a mega-dam on the Congo River in Africa).” Ehrlich agreed. “In

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking -- EPA Honors Energy-Efficient Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

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. Subsidies and mandates for renewables result in higher electricity prices and the net transfer of wealth from lower to upper income citizens.

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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. The last famine in Somalia occurred in 2011, when about a quarter-million people died. Such a declaration is unusual.

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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 from the electricity generation sector. [21]. One study estimates that CO. RGGI is composed of individual CO.

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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. The Rundown Federal judges order the EPA to set a limit on perchlorate in drinking water.

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