Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. billion to $2.2

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Rooftop solar reduces dependence on fossil fuels, eases strain on the electricity grid during periods of high demand, and increases resilience to threats like extreme weather, all at a steadily falling cost. electricity sales in 2022, but instead only generated about 1.5 Elizabeth Fiedler (D-Philadelphia).

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It will produce enough electricity equivalent to 600,000 Danish households. . Even though Denmark already generates a large share of its electricity by wind power the addition of Kriegers Flak means that Danish production of wind power significantly increases, adding 16 per cent to the country’s capacity.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

For comparison, the 2012 London Olympics and 2016 Rio Olympics emitted 3.3 Reusing venues and replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy use is essential to cutting emissions at a large sporting event. It’s time to add another new word to the Olympic motto: Faster, Higher, Stronger, Greener – Together. million tonnes and 3.6

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

EPA had previously considered electric vehicles as a way of reducing pollution. The distinction between renewables and fossil fuel generation is stark, and EPA had not previously tried to dictate a utility’s energy source. The per-vehicle compliance cost is well within the range of previous EPA car regulations.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule. Posted on June 29, 2022 by Eugene M.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Many are oil refineries being converted from fossil fuel production to renewable fuel production. Imported bio-based diesel fuel consumed another 1.0 MMT of feedstock for fuel production abroad, so total US bio-based diesel consumption in 2022 required 12 MMT of feedstock, half of it to supply fuel to California.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

2023 was a milestone year for electric car sales in the US. Sales figure from VELOZ The top selling passenger car AND top selling light truck in CA in 2023, according to California New Car Dealers Association , were both electric vehicles with the Tesla Model 3 and the Tesla Model Y taking the top spots…as they also did in 2022.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

In addition to high-energy lights running 12-18 hours a day, these facilities also require heating and cooling equipment, humidity controls, and ventilations systems, all of which use prodigious amounts of electricity. in 2012 was around 20TW/h. energy use for that year. Cannabis is, at the end of the day, an agricultural commodity.

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The term “fossil fuels”, however, is mentioned 16 times. It’s indeed true that emissions must go down, but we also must explicitly acknowledge that we need to reduce our dependence on coal, oil and gas (“fossil fuels”). 775-779, 2012. C or 2°C since preindustrial times (p. Solomon, and A.S.

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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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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

in 1931: “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind, and tide.” rojects to reduce fossil fuel consumption. Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . Indeed, at a Sept. cean acidity.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 16, 2022

Today there is a significant increased emphasis on renewable energy in company ESG disclosures about reducing the environmental and economic harms associated with fossil fuel energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the supply of renewable energy projects and foster a just transition to a green economy.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2022

Carbon emissions calculations take into account the carbon intensity of the fuel source type, with nuclear, solar, wind and hydro-electric being emissions-free while grid-electricity, natural gas, district steam and chilled water have various emissions factors. below the baseline, compared to 28.9% million.

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2030 Paris Agreement Carbon Emissions Renewable Energy 52

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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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 project’s winding path underscores the grinding pace and tough choices of building new energy infrastructure as the state transitions from fossil fuels.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The Second Circuit rejected the claim that the renewable energy solicitations exceeded the limited authority granted to states with respect to wholesale sales of electricity under the Federal Power Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. The court said recalculation of past credits would be barred by the Eleventh Amendment.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. In particular, the analysis of climate change impacts may be counterintuitive (showing an increase in GHG emissions) should the SCAQMD prioritize electricity- and hydrogen-powered trucks at the expense of other technologies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

It was a bogus argument that fossil fuel proponents would repeat ad nauseum over the next 10 years, so when Rose failed to provide some needed context, I jumped in. I’m not aware of anything the fossil fuel industry gets that I would characterize as a subsidy.” His reply ?

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Coal mine reclamation has become a flashpoint in the partisan divide over fossil fuel use. In the late 1970s, a golden age for American coal, skyrocketing oil prices coupled with rising demand for electricity set off a boom in coal-fired power plants. Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

23 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit; Hearing Set For Feb. 23 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit; Hearing Set For Feb. 22 RiverWatch Video Report -- First Street Foundation: Over 3.2

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Billion Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Natural Gas, Other Electricity Generators [PaEN] -- Project InnerSpace Launches Cross-Collaborative Future of Oil/Gas Well-Based Geothermal In Pennsylvania Study [PaEN] -- PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec.

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Fossil Fuels 2023 126

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Billion Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Natural Gas, Other Electricity Generators [PaEN] -- Project InnerSpace Launches Cross-Collaborative Future of Oil/Gas Well-Based Geothermal In Pennsylvania Study [PaEN] -- PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec.

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Air Pollution Natural Gas Fossil Fuels 2010 107

Vermont Law

MARCH 22, 2016

It was expected to set the stage for a five percent reduction in carbon emissions that would occur beginning in 2008 through 2012, based on 1990 emission levels. Sure, laws may help to speed along the development of non-fossil fuel sources of energy through “technology forcing.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Billion Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Natural Gas, Other Electricity Generators [PaEN] -- Project InnerSpace Launches Cross-Collaborative Future of Oil/Gas Well-Based Geothermal In Pennsylvania Study [PaEN] -- PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec.

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Natural Gas 2023 2024 Waste 119

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? Other States/National/International -- Reuters: U.S.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

million workers; both of which have grown by over 20% between 2012/13 and 2015/16.” The figures for green jobs compares with “467,000 in mining, 200,000 in electricity generation and several hundred thousand elsewhere in manufacturing and construction related to fossil fuels.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Scott Perry A Run For His Political Life?

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

million workers; both of which have grown by over 20% between 2012/13 and 2015/16.” The figures for green jobs compares with “467,000 in mining, 200,000 in electricity generation and several hundred thousand elsewhere in manufacturing and construction related to fossil fuels.”

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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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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court. These standards required each automobile manufacturer to reduce the average emissions from its vehicle fleet by approximately 5% per year between 2012 and 2025.

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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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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

By 2012, it was plain that neither half of this “Plan A” strategy was in the offing. Even within the US, states were very differently situated in terms of production of fossil fuels and reliance on them for industry and generating electricity. It’s not surprising that “Plan B” had to be used.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S. Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2022, installed wind and solar power more than tripled , according to American Clean Power. percent of US electricity and utility-scale solar generated 3.4 In 2012, coal generated 37 percent of US electricity.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

The ultimate figures will determine the way that climate impacts are accounted for in federal decision-making, and could make it more difficult to justify approving fossil fuel infrastructure and other projects that contribute to climate change—and therefore, have an effect on climate policy throughout the federal government.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. Electric utilities, meanwhile, gave her $44,750. Moody also jumped in head-first to protect the fossil fuel industry.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- TribLive: DEP Declares TODAY Code Orange Air Quality Alert For Liberty/Clairton, Allegheny County = -- FERC Approves PJM $1.25 Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp.,

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