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. The reason given is that gas is needed to fill an upcoming drop in nuclear capacity.
Environmental Progress
MARCH 11, 2021
In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] 19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20]
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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. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.
Vermont Law
MARCH 16, 2018
Many civil disobedience activists in the 1960s and 70s attempted to use it to justify their illegal actions in protests over foreign wars or nuclear power, for example, but achieved little to no success. So actions taken to curtail some carbon emissions, but not all, might still suffice. in some way. reasonable.
Environmental Progress
APRIL 20, 2021
Coal energy has the highest carbon intensity of fossil fuels, but the electricity that coal provided during the cold snap saved Texas from more widespread blackouts, and possibly more fatalities. [22] should maintain and expand its fleet of highly-reliable, carbon-free, and 94 percent efficient nuclear power plants.
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