Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

Renewable energy in the United States has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. Here’s the clean energy momentum at stake, the threats to that momentum, and why there is still reason for hope. But the actions of President Trump and [the Republican-controlled] Congress threaten to take a sledgehammer to that progress.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in January 2025, his second presidency will have widespread implications for the energy industry, especially new investments, but not necessarily in the ways his supporters might expect. Renewable Energy Vs. Fossil Fuels Renewables or fossil fuels?

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Scientific American

JULY 10, 2025

“Solutions are likely to come from a mixture of innovation and technological development, policy interventions and incentives, such as requiring concurrent renewable energy development, as well as responsible investment practices,” Olivia Dobson, director of resilience at Verisk Maplecroft, said in an email. Yet in the U.S.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The LCFS is designed to hold fuel producers accountable for their supply chain emissions The LCFS and related Clean Fuel Standard policies are performance standards for transportation fuel based on lifecycle analysis. Negative CI scores undermine California’s goal of phasing out fossil fuels and combustion fuels in general.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

You can read their insights from their experiences—including being denied the opportunity to take the floor—and their efforts to engage with Dr. Avery in 2017 , 2018 , and 2019. At ExxonMobil’s 2017 AGM—when Dr. Avery was added to the board—a majority of shareholders for the first time approved a climate-related shareholder proposal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Source: Government Accountability Office (GAO) 2017 Good RTOs must include a broad set of stakeholders Although the RTOs in the eastern United States vary in their governance structures, they generally have an independent board of governors that approve final decisions as well as stakeholder sectors that vote on issues.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Barclays and HSBC are two of the major banks which continue to fund fossil fuel investments. A report by ShareAction has delivered a damning verdict on European banks connection to fossil fuel investments. Major European banks at the heart of continued fossil fuel support. Photo credit: AFP / Getty Images.

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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. With a fossil fuel-friendly Republican party, that is proving to be a harder political sell. Coal mine cleanup law is still built for the industry’s roaring ’70s. Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

and Cuban governments could help to drive renewable energy development in the island nation, in a manner that benefits the Cuban people as well as the interests of people throughout the region. Cuba’s power system is currently heavily reliant on fossil fuels. policy also has a significant impact on Cuba’s energy sector.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

The 2024 current environmental issue focused on-- Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future. Pennsylvania won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers. Click Here for the complete announcement.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2022

Celebration when Emmanuel Macron was elected President of France in 2017. But since his election five years ago, Macron has aggressively been expanding renewable energy capacity, such as solar and wind. Photo credit: By Lorie Shaull CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2023

The Report builds upon previous reports from 2017 and 2020 , providing a comprehensive update on the current state of, and trends in, climate change litigation worldwide. Keeping Fossil Fuels and Carbon Sinks in the Ground: A significant trend in climate litigation revolves around efforts to halt fossil fuel extraction and use.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. In fact, the current government is actively making our energy grid a lot dirtier. Early in its first term, it canceled over 750 renewable energy projects , some of which had already been built.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. He has publicly called for investments in clean energy, green technologies, and environmental research. from Villanova University School of Law.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Central Asian country of just seven million people will construct the 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm, which is to be constructed by Rosatom Renewable Energy JSC. The country that gained independence when the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 is heavily reliant on energy imports.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). Murray Energy Corp. June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). Clean Air Council v.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Both Republicans and Democrats are touting natural gas with CCS as the next clean energy solution, and significant funding has been earmarked for its research and development — at the expense of renewable energy projects that have proven to be cheaper and to produce fewer carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Shapiro, Let’s Hold The Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable Via RGGI - By Rev. Cambria County Mine Drainage Treatment Project -- EEN Action - Evangelical Environmental Network Will Deliver Over 51,000 Signatures To Gov. Mitchell Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network -- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host Oct.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Last week the Sabin Center and the American Bar Association held an event on addressing landowner concerns in renewable energy siting. Wind and solar farms often spark siting battles between local residents who welcome renewable energy projects and their neighbors who are concerned about visual or other impacts.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 16, 2023

Ramping up “natural” gas – a fossil fuel – to generate electricity across Southern Ontario will come at a high cost to both the public and the environment, especially when there are cheaper and cleaner alternatives available. It is clear that hydrogen is being used as an excuse to build new gas plants.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Bring emissions from electricity to 2017 levels, and achieving zero emissions by 2030. Expand hydro capacity, increase intermittent renewables including wind and solar power, create more grid scale storage, increase rooftop solar capacity on buildings, and major grid interconnection with Quebec and Manitoba to enable electricity imports.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

Coupled with its renewable energy generation background, it is a perfect country to demonstrate a case study of how e-mobility can truly impact climate change,” says Steve Chang, representative of BYD in Sub-Saharan Africa. “Mid International companies see the signs of an emerging market that may boom. Photo credit: Alamy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

. -- Natural Gas In Homes: Over half of Pennsylvania households use natural gas as their primary home heating fuel, and the state’s 48 underground gas storage sites–the most for any state–help meet regional heating demand in winter. -- Electricity Exporter: Pennsylvania is the second-largest net supplier of total energy to other states, after Texas.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. In fact, the current government is actively making our energy grid a lot dirtier. Early in its first term, it canceled over 750 renewable energy projects , some of which had already been built.

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Smith Enviorment

JUNE 4, 2021

Based on DEQ’s actions on the two pipeline projects reviewed since 2017, there is no policy against new natural gas infrastructure. The possible need for redundancy in energy infrastructure to reduce risk of system failure; and 2. Open Questions. What is the Cooper administration policy on natural gas?

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Columbia Climate Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

PURPA requires electric utilities to purchase energy and capacity from qualifying renewable energy facilities (“QFs”). 4] PURPA removes barriers for non-utility generation where such generation is cost-effective, thereby increasing competition and creating a downward pressure on future energy costs. [5]. Footnotes. [1]

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels. According to the country’s Finance Division , as of April 2022, just under 60% of total installed generation capacity used fossil fuels, including gas, oil and coal. Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Meanwhile, renewable energy is being sidelined. As Russia seeks new clients for its construction technology and fossil fuels, and with Pakistan desperate for a secure and cheap supply of natural gas, the visit could lay the foundations for Russia to build a pipeline to transport natural gas from Karachi to Lahore.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

Unfortunately, due to trading-power difficulties between provinces, China’s east still relies on fossil fuels for much of its electricity generation. Most EV owners live far from where renewable energy is generated, in the West. A 2022 Stanford University study into the situation in the US came to a similar conclusion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

California Sues Fossil Fuel Polluters California’s climate accountability lawsuit is groundbreaking in several ways: California is the first major fossil fuel-producing state to file a climate accountability lawsuit. California Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Since its founding in 2017, the US Climate Alliance —a coalition of states committed to meeting the goals of the Paris climate accord—has grown to 24 states and one US territory. We found that states have technically feasible and highly beneficial ways to achieve 100-percent renewable energy.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. The count to which the defendant pleaded guilty involved a request for reimbursement of $363,668.50

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

Digesters are key nodes in a growing movement to use biogas derived from animal manure for energy, sometimes under the guise of “green” or “renewable” energy. This practice helps farmers replace or retrofit fossil-fuel burning combustion engines and systems with cleaner and/or more renewable options.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2022

Truly resilient communities would have the infrastructure (including renewable energy infrastructure) and support in place to move from surviving to thriving. It is expensive to power our homes on fossil fuels, which contribute to global warming and present adverse health risks from pollution.

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