PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2022

mile urban riverfront trail was envisioned in the Master Plan for the Central Delaware adopted by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission in 2012. The 2022 Great Greenways/Trails include-- -- Delaware River Trail (City of Philadelphia): This 3.5 An extensive public engagement process contributed to the planning and final design.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Solar power is jetting us towards that goal. gigawatts (GW) of solar power, enough power to provide electricity for one third of the households in Los Angeles. The growth in solar power has been exponential in the past decade and isn’t stopping. By 2010, the US had installed 2.6

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

5] Jesse Jenkins, “A Plan to Future-Proof the Texas Power Grid,” New York Times , February 18, 2021. [6] Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System. Frew, “Low-Cost solution to the grid reliability problem with 100% penetration of renewables,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. GW from its 4.9

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

Still, energy economists and many environmentalists see the existing Canadian reservoirs as a key tool to balance wind and solar power sources in New York. Solar as of 2020 represented less than 1 percent of electricity produced in New York. “We CHPE faces opposition further down the line.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Over the last decade, coal generation dropped 40 percent while wind and solar use nearly quadrupled. In 2012, coal accounted for 37 percent of US electricity, while natural gas and renewables—including hydropower—accounted for 30 percent and 11.7 percent respectively, according to US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.

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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] gigawatts of highly-reliable, low-cost, and low-carbon power. [49] per megawatt-hour on average in 2012 to $30.42 The answer is, ‘Yes, of course.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 16, 2022

The FTC issued revised “Green Guides” , 16 CFR Part 260, in 2012 that are intended to help ensure that claims made by businesses about the environmental attributes are truthful and non-deceptive under Section 5 of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Michael Mann To Receive Leo Szilard Lectureship Award From American Physical Society -- AP: Nun Imprisoned Over Peace Activism Dies In Montgomery County At 91 -- PA State Parks Offer Dozens Of Ideas For Using Halloween As A Teaching Opportunity For Students [PaEN] -- ReadingE: Sensory Trail At Blue Marsh Lake 25 Years Old -- LehighValleyLive: Moving (..)

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

The Defense Department remains the biggest single consumer of energy in the country, and it has made major investments in solar power. It’s part of the annual funding bill for the military. It also plays a major role in developing new technologies.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Montana Federal Court Agreed to Consider Keystone XL-Specific Documents and 2012 Biological Opinion in Challenge to Authorization Under Nationwide Permit. Lawsuit Filed Challenging Solar Power Facility in California. Williams , No. 19-cv-6855 (E.D.N.Y. County of Kern , No. BCV-20-100080 (Cal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

No new coal plants have been built in the United States in the last decade and, according to an April report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Finance, this year US coal-fired power plants will likely burn half of what they burned 10 years ago. percent of US electricity and utility-scale solar generated 3.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Over the last 12 years, I wrote eight columns on the Koch network’s escapades, including: Its attempt in 2012 to scare consumers about the cost of state renewable energy standards, which require utilities to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels by increasing their use of wind and solar power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Presumably to Koch’s surprise—and dismay—Muller announced in a July 2012 New York Times op-ed that his investigation verified that global warming is indeed real, is “almost entirely” caused by human activity, and is even worse than what the climate science community had concluded at the time.

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