Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Rate design has been a site of experimentation and contestation since the earliest days of electricity provisioning. In the earliest days of electricity provisioning, fixed charges were common in residential rates due to the limits of metering technology. Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Whatever the weather in March and beyond—in-like-a-lion blustery or out-like-a-lamb sunny—spring tends to be a season of strong electricity production from solar and wind in particular. Spring is also a glorious time for taking stock, since the official data on the previous year’s US electricity generation become available.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Dernbach said that Pennsylvania’s courts did not take the environmental rights amendment seriously until 2013, when they invalidated parts of a state law that encouraged oil and gas development. This hotly contested referendum is focused on the future of electric power in the region. Groups who support a ban do so on several grounds.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

That provision was declared unconstitutional by the PA Supreme Court in a landmark ruling in December 2013 based on the Environmental Rights Amendment in Pennsylvania’s Constitution. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Since 2013, the League has supported the Straight Scoop on Shale educational initiative, which provides an opportunity for scientists, public health professionals, industry, and advocacy groups to present and learn more about the development of unconventional oil and gas, environmental impacts, and health risks.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ontario Power Generation has been quietly selling off Clean Energy Credits from its hydro and nuclear power to businesses in the United States since about 2013. The agreement provides Microsoft ongoing Clean Energy Credits so it can claim to be using low carbon electricity. We lose our claim to clean electricity .

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

Wells drilled in 2013. EQT Chap LLC - Violations: 3 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells (11 Months) March 3, 2025 inspection of the 3 shale gas wells on the Brunazzi Unit well pad (9H, 10H 11H) in Deemston Borough, Washington County found the wells abandoned and not plugged. Original violations issued on April 17, 2024. Violations continued.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of natural gas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

School Campus Could Save $10 Million -- TribLive: Developer Appeals Unity Twp.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

The only reason Ontario’s energy grid is relatively clean (though getting dirtier now) is because previous governments (from other parties) responded to public pressure for cleaner air and lower emissions and phased out the use of coal to generate electricity in the province.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Hotter temperatures, year over year, created the conditions for the Lesser Slave Lake, Fort MacMurry (the most costly natural disaster in Canadian history), and Jasper fires, along with multiple devastating hail storms, a four-year-and-counting drought, and the second most expensive natural disaster in Canadian history, the 2013 southern Alberta flood. (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2013 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc.: PA Bulletin, page 2013 ) -- Seneca Resources Co LLC : DEP issued a Chapter 102 permit for a project impacting Baldwin Run (High Quality) located in Delmar Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2013 ) -- Williams Field Services Co. .: PA Bulletin, page 2013 ) -- Williams Field Services Co. .:

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

So far in 2025, DEP issued 39 violations to 10 shale gas drilling companies for abandoning and not plugging their well, most drilled in the early days of shale gas development in Pennsylvania-- 2009 to 2013. Read more here.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

The Himalayan country currently depends on hydropower for nearly all its electricity generation. Solar power is seen as a quick way to meet the growing demand for electricity. Today solar energy has reached grid parity with hydropower, meaning the per-unit cost of electricity is almost equal to that of hydro,” Namgyel said.

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Physics World

JANUARY 4, 2022

Topological photonics has become an active area of research, and topological insulators, which are electrically insulating in the bulk but conduct electrons along scattering-free “topologically protected” paths, are expected to be useful in applications ranging from optical isolators to lasers.

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Physics World

MAY 28, 2021

His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (2012), Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), MRS Medal (2018), and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019).

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013. In its Nationally Determined Contribution , Japan has committed to reducing GHG emissions by 46% in 2030 from 2013 levels and achieving net zero emissions by 2050. As of May 2022 , there are 163 operating coal-fired power plants in Japan.

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Columbia Climate Law

JULY 9, 2015

Recently, two competing plans to reform California’s four-tier electricity rate structure of the three investor-owned utilities (IOUs) [1] have emerged from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Under the current tariff system, customers who use more electricity are charged significantly higher rates per kilowatt-hour (kWh). [4]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2013 ) Erosion & Sedimentation Permits - Issued -- Blackhill Energy LLC - Unknown Project: DEP issued a Chapter 102 permit for an unknown project impacting Mill Creek located in Springfield Twp., Received June 11, 2024, Issued Feb. 24, 2025. ( Washington County. Received Sept. 19, 2024, Issued Feb. 21, 2025. (

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Last year, renewables generated more electricity in the United States than coal for the first time, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US electric car sales, meanwhile, jumped 65% compared to 2021, while overall car sales last year declined from the previous year. Electric vehicles (EVs) accounted for 5.8%

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

billion electric truck plant construction project, for which Tennessee used eminent domain to seize land from a group of Black farmers, allegedly for a fraction of its value. Despite these valid concerns, the actual effect of the CEQA trailer bills will likely prove less dramatic than the strong rhetoric they’ve generated.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2021

Gazprom is the state-owned Russian oil and gas company that played a key role in the imprisonment in Russia of 30 Greenpeace activists in 2013 after they had protested against oil drilling in the Arctic, and imprisoned them under conditions violating human rights. UEFA needs to up their game.

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Physics World

JUNE 14, 2021

The data were collected during different periods between 2006 and 2013. These models could be used, for instance, to estimate energy demand in the transition towards more pervasive electric mobility.”. Using these data, the researchers were able to estimate were each phone user lived and the places they travelled.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Wells drilled in 2013. EQT Chap LLC - Violations: 3 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells (11 Months) March 3, 2025 inspection of the 3 shale gas wells on the Brunazzi Unit well pad (9H, 10H 11H) in Deemston Borough, Washington County found the wells abandoned and not plugged. Original violations issued on April 17, 2024. Violations continued.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The researchers achieved this by arranging the VCSELs in a geometry that follows some of the concepts of topological insulators – quantum materials that are insulating in their bulk, but excellent conductors of electricity on their surface.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Other witnesses said expanding renewable energy would reduce energy costs, avoid increasing over-reliance on natural gas and its price spikes, improve electric grid reliability, is needed to keep Pennsylvania competitive and generate business investment and jobs.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2023

Failure To Submit Reports Since 2013 In response to a citizen complaint about leaking gas, DEP inspected the Waddell Farms conventional gas well operated by Apple Shamrock Dairy Farms LLC in Steuben Township, Crawford County on June 30.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

In order to achieve this target, the United States will need to greatly expand electricity generation while decarbonizing electricity resources. Department of Energy has stated that, in order to meet growing clean electricity demands, the United States must expand its transmission systems by 60% by 2030 and upwards of 300% by 2050.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected. As if this was not enough, the two Asian giants are also progressing on another part of the energy transition: electric vehicles. Recently India has unveiled working on having only electric cars on the roads by 2030.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 2011, Dr. Mohammed Islam, a tenured professor of electrical and computer engineering at UM received an additional appointment to UM’s medical school, for which he executed an employment agreement.[[N: After returning to UM in 2013, he filed non-provisional applications claiming priority to those provisional applications.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Utility Dive: New Jersey Residential Customers Face 20% Electric Bill Hikes, Driven By PJM Capacity Prices: NJ Board Of Public Utilities -- US EIA Natural Gas Price Forecast For 2025 Now 21% Higher Than Last Forecast At $3.80; 2026 Forecast Now $4.20

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 24, 2023

Hatfield’s Ferry Power Station, a Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant, stopped producing electricity in 2013. Read the full story from Reuters. Its closure came in a wave of coal-plant shutdowns triggered by competition from cheaper, cleaner natural gas and incentives in the U.S. Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

All the wells were drilled in the first rush of shale gas drilling before 2013 The violations were issued for these wells-- -- Fayette County Henry Clay Twp.: Almost all are repeat offenses where Diversified has failed to correct violations for more than three and a half years. W.Smith 1 - Abandoned and leaking gas since Sept.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Renewable energy sources and electric vehicles are progressing so fast around the world that according to a new study coal and oil use could peak worldwide in as little as three years. That’s it ! Yes, you read that right.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

The only reason Ontario’s energy grid is relatively clean (though getting dirtier now) is because previous governments (from other parties) responded to public pressure for cleaner air and lower emissions and phased out the use of coal to generate electricity in the province. It will be something to watch.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

WARNING: This bill includes a sneaky attempt to adopt a one-size-fits-all, bureaucratic state-run nutrient credit procurement program that has been promoted in one version or another by one company-- Bion Environmental Technologies-- and its allies which has been rejected by local stakeholders since 2013 Read more here.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

This led to the increased use of other energy sources, especially coal, for electricity generation. In April 2013, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry developed the ‘Director-General Meeting Agreement’ that substantially loosened the assessment standards for building new coal-fired power plants.

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