A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

By Zofeen Ebrahim Progress towards the construction of a China-funded coal power plant in Gwadar raises questions about the climate pledges of both China and Pakistan. Bao Zhong, political counsellor at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Islamabad, told me that the Chinese government stands by the pledge.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

However, as explained below, siting decisions for pipelines and transmission lines are governed by different laws, and while both are subject to environmental review, their environmental impacts are not comparable. Utility lines include power lines as well as oil and gas pipelines, among other things. In April of this year, the U.S.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

This fundamental reality has been obscured by the high complexity of wholesale electricity “markets,” which were created by government policies and regulations and mask the high cost of integrating variable renewable energy sources — until, that is, disaster strikes. 14] The average age of a unit of wind or solar is 6.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I Darren Woods, ExxonMobil CEO from 2017 to the present. “There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said.

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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] 1] In its 2017 report, the Academies warned that U.S. While there has been talk of bringing solar manufacturing to the U.S. as a whole. [52]

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It has been projected that increasing the goals to at least 5 percent solar would create more than 50,000 jobs, preserve thousands of family farms (PA lost more than 7,000 between 2012 and 2017), and help countless cash-strapped municipalities and nonprofits make ends meet – particularly institutions of faith and education.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Completely electrifying government fleets by 2030. Bring emissions from electricity to 2017 levels, and achieving zero emissions by 2030. An Ontario Liberal government will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Establish Ontario’s first Youth Climate Corps.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Fuel costs don’t change for wind- and solar-powered electricity over time because the wind and sun are free, and clean energy produced in the U.S. Fuels needed to power fossil fuel plants, however, are traded globally and subject to supply chain and other constraints that impact their availability and price. stays in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2023

T he bill was introduced at the request of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation which was unhappy with an April 17, 2017 settlement with DEP over an appeal of a stormwater pollution prevention permit for its West Point, Montgomery County plant (Environmental Hearing Board Docket No. 2015-011-L ). Posted: June 21, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The monitoring of the atmosphere, of the surface of the Earth, of what’s going on in the ocean and under the ice — all of that is overwhelmingly funded by the federal government.”. Haven't we actually moved beyond relying on government to reduce carbon emissions? Yes, wind and solar power are rapidly becoming economic options.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

In addition, Koch Industries spent more than $38 million on its Washington lobbying operation during the last two full election cycles, from 2017 through 2020. Egged on by Koch devotees both inside and outside the government, the Trump administration rolled back at least 260 regulations , including more than 100 environmental rules.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. The court noted that the administrative record currently documented the Corps’ decision to reissue NWP 12 in 2017. Lawsuit Filed Challenging Solar Power Facility in California. C076888 (Cal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

What does a divided government mean for US climate policy? My first example, from Florida, shows that advocacy groups can succeed when local and state governments fail to act. Under the settlement, the company will retire all of its coal-fired power plants by 2025 and install nearly 8,000 megawatts of solar power by 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It stops the government from factoring in the social cost of greenhouse gases in budgets and environmental reviews. Despite the United States having spewed a quarter of all the world’s cumulative global warming gases, Johnson blathered at a 2017 town hall: “What about Africa? He holds that climate change is due to “natural cycles.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Here are 1,198 articles published in local news media and in the PA Environment Digest during 2021 that tell the stories of thousands of individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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