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Dell Technology’s Path to Reducing Energy Intensity and Carbon Emissions

Environmental Leader

Dell Technologies committed to reducing emissions from assets it owned and controlled by 40% by 2020 from a 2010 baseline. It also sought to cut indirect emissions from the energy it purchased by the same amount. And, it promised to cut its energy intensity by 80% by 2020 from a 2012 baseline. The results?

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Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. In 2012, coal generated 37 percent of US electricity.

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It’s Time for Charles Koch to Testify About His Climate Change Disinformation Campaign

Union of Concerned Scientists

The committee followed up that hearing —during which the executives disingenuously denied funding such a campaign—with another hearing on February 8 focusing on the oil companies’ inadequate plans to cut their carbon emissions. Investing in Clean Energy While Trashing It. Decades of Disinformation.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

In my retelling of the show, I quickly pointed out that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had by then concluded that “most” of the increase in average global temperatures since 1950 was “very likely” due to the increase in human-made carbon emissions. ExxonMobil is still funding those folks, big time.”

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Why Ontario needs to stop burning polluting gas for electricity

Enviromental Defense

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 . Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 .

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

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. 24] Some of the cost of variable renewable energy sources comes in the form of the transmission lines they require.

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Tesla in Germany: Locals vote against factory expansion plan

Corp Watch

The technologies in question are suspected as a possible cause of fatal crashes, and capable of causing “a serious risk of accident and injury.” Major Projects Tesla’s German gigafactory expansion plans face setback over water protection concerns – media Carolina Kyllmann | Clean Energy Wire | July 26, 2023 U.S.