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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i].

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PennEnvironment Report Finds PA Lags Behind Many States In Rooftop Solar Facilities, Recommends Policies For Improving Growth

PA Environment Daily

“Why pay for polluting energy from a dirty power plant hundreds of miles away when Pennsylvanians can just soak up the sun on our rooftops?” Small-scale solar energy, of which rooftop solar is the largest component - is growing rapidly in the United States, producing 10 times as much power in 2022 as a decade earlier.

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Why Ontario needs to stop burning polluting gas for electricity

Enviromental Defense

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. The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. Source: IESO [link].

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce 2021 Texas Grid Failure

Environmental Progress

percent of the grid’s power. In his recent testimony to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the coauthor of Princeton University’s Net-Zero America study noted that just because an energy technology is not reliable does not mean that it has no role in a reliable system. [8] GW from its 4.9

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Given the EPA has the responsibility and the obligation to address carbon pollution, these standards—the first to limit carbon emissions from existing coal- and gas-fired power plants—are long overdue. Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S. 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 US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents.