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The energy transition is already happening, and it’s being led by our Indigenous communities

Enviromental Defense

In 2013, I returned to university to complete a master’s degree with a research focus on energy transition. By 2015, I successfully completed my first solar implementation in my home community which was Little Buffalo’s first grid-connected solar project that powers our health centre.

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Analysis: Bhutan ramps up its solar ambitions

A Greener Life

With several new power-intensive IT industries proposed to be established, Bhutan’s domestic demand for energy is projected to more than double in the next two years, and its winter energy deficit will worsen, officials at the Department of Industry told me. Solar energy has become competitive. Previous obstacles have been overcome.

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Analysis: Small solar projects help to power Argentina’s energy transition

A Greener Life

A small town generating its own power, a city school equipping its rooftop with solar panels, and a company building solar water heaters that help to cut energy bills: small-scale initiatives across Argentina are showing the active role people can play in building a renewable energy-powered future.

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New Columbia Resource Tracks the President’s Climate Action Plan

Law Columbia

On June 25, 2013, President Obama delivered a major speech on the topic of climate change. The agenda, detailed in The President’s Climate Action Plan , relies almost entirely upon executive powers; Congress is not even mentioned in the text. These facilities account for around 40% of all carbon pollution in the United States.

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Power through the Adirondack Park

Circle of Blue

Financed by one of the world’s richest private equity firms, The Blackstone Group, the CHPE is championed by its supporters as essential to unwind New York’s reliance on carbon-spewing fossil fuel and meet a 2040 target of emissions-free electricity. Solar as of 2020 represented less than 1 percent of electricity produced in New York.

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

Comitta: Calls For Hearings On The Failure Of Pennsylvania To Invest In Clean Energy Infrastructure [PaEN] -- ErieT: Solar Energy Project Planned In Girard, Another Still Planned In Southern Erie County -- PG: Pittsburgh Mayor, Other Cities, U.S. Labor Secretary Talk About Future Of $600 Billion Clean Energy ‘Marshall Plan’ -- Sen.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The Ninth Circuit further concluded that even if the first prong was satisfied, the plaintiffs did not “surmount the remaining hurdle” of establishing that the relief they sought was within the power of Article III courts. Fossil fuel companies also filed their reply brief in their appeal of the remand order in Rhode Island’s case.

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